Responding quickly and directly to hospitals and Dr.s needs during COVID-19
Virtually Maker Faire 2020
May 22nd-23rd
Like so many others before the coronavirus emergency, we at Model No. had our plates full of internal mission-critical projects for the first half of 2020. But as we witnessed the coronavirus outbreak spreading across the globe, we decided that the right thing to do was to set those projects aside to prioritize finding a way to help.
While sheltering in place in our various homes in the San Francisco Bay Area, we reached out to like-minded engineers on collaboration platforms like Helpful Engineering and our local hospitals to see where we could best be of immediate help. Based on those initial conversations, we realized that our expertise in digital fabrication put us in an ideal position to build custom protective equipment and other unavailable items for medical professionals and to do so in an expedited time frame.
What we are making: Working with local hospitals, and directly chatting with hospital staff on the front lines, we started making an Aerosol Box that they are in desperate need of. Leveraging a design from Doctor Hsien Yung Lai, the product we’re building is very similar but with design changes requested by the staff at our Bay Area hospitals and tweaks to greatly speed up production.
Since then we have upgraded our production to include 3D printing to help out other efforts. So far we have produced 868 shield parts for the Maker Nexus face shield project that has delivered over 21,000 shields to hospitals and doctors! We've also made 1220 face shields for the https://www.peoplesprotectiveequipment.com/ project which has given away more than 20,000 shields!
And to date we've created and shipped 50 custom Aerosol boxes direct to doctors in hospitals.
