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Plan C: Chicago Shield Part 4 – Binge-making with Dan Meyer

Plan C: Chicago Shield Part 4 – Binge-making with Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer manages the Fab Lab at the Museum of Science and Industry. He is a manufacturing technologist with a degree in manufacturing technology from Illinois Institute of technology, which is now called Illinois Tech.  e started in 1991 working in his family’s Foundry on the South side of Chicago, which was started by his […]

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Plan C: Chicago Shield Part 3 – Who’s Not in the Network

Plan C: Chicago Shield Part 3 – Who’s Not in the Network

  Part 3: Who’s Not in the Network Ray Doeksen is a veteran of the Iraq War, and a member of American Legion and the VFW in Chicago. His background is industrial design yet Ray’s superpower is being a connector. In his words, he has “his fingers in everything”, which includes Pumping Station One makerspace […]

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Plan C: Chicago Shield Part 2 — The Solin Flat Pack Face Shield

Plan C: Chicago Shield Part 2 — The Solin Flat Pack Face Shield

  Part 2: The Solin Flatpack Face Shield Jeff Solin teaches Computer Science and runs the makerspace at Lane Technical High School in Chicago. Lane Tech is a mammoth, old-style public high school building that serves 4,500 students. Down one of its many wings, Jeff Solin has developed LTMakers Lab over the last six years. […]

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Plan C: Chicago Shield: Part 1 – A Mesh Network for Making Face Shields

Plan C: Chicago Shield: Part 1 – A Mesh Network for Making Face Shields

  Part 1: A Mesh Network for 3D Printing Face Shields “They’re making whatever we can get them to make.” —Jay Margalus The Haul from DePaul Jayson “Jay” Margalus is the faculty director of makerspaces at DePaul University. He is also President of SpaceLab, a non profit community makerspace in his hometown of Mokena, Illinois. […]

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Plan C: Chicago Shield – Introduction

Plan C: Chicago Shield – Introduction

  This series of articles, Chicago Shield, is about the COVID-19 response organized by a group of makers who knew each other through Chicago’s network of makerspace. They created a “mesh network” to organize the production and distribution of face shields, starting in Chicago and the suburbs. They called it the Illinois PPE Network. Within […]

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Choose the Right Ear Protection for Loud Jobs

Choose the Right Ear Protection for Loud Jobs

When working around noisy equipment, ear protection is essential to not causing damage. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration sets the limit to which a worker should be exposed during an 8 hour day to 90 decibels on an A-weighted scale (dBA). The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) recommends a more conservative […]

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