How we responded to Covid19 pandemia in Spain: Making a respirator from scratch using a 3D printer and home improvement materials; making Charlotte Valves, Facial masks and more!

Virtually Maker Faire 2020

May 22nd-23rd

I live in Spain, one of the countries that has been brutally affected by the pandemia.
Form day one of confinement, I started to work to alleviate the lack of resources in Spain. I have sewn hundreds of facial masks out of vacuum cleaner bags, I have produced hundreds of "Charlotte" valves for respirators, and I have designed an open-source ventilator using only home-improvement materials (inox chimney), a 3D printer and a handful of electronics (all arduino). My goal was to create a ventilator WITHOUT using an AMBU-BAG (bag valve mask)
I published my designs and code in LinkedIn and a week later I had people from Colombia, Canada, Singapore, Mauritania, Sweeden... all interested in th project and asking questions about how to assemble it and such.
I started to work alone, but soon realized that working in a group was going to be much more productive, and I joined 3Denrolados, a group of (mad) people willing to give their best to fight against the coronavirus.