[Swansea Hackspace] Medical Mask Printing

[Paul Harwood]

We must use the skills we have to prototype designs that can protect staff, then interface with local manufacturers to mass produce items or make high quality items suitable for clinical settings.

What seem like low hanging fruit can actually be quite dangerous things to take on.

e.g. Making hand sanitiser is pretty easy, but it has to be quality assessed, because poor mixing techniques could kill someone by giving false positives to them thinking their heads are clean and not eradicating the virus.

What this group could REALLY help with is coming up with designs for solutions to  problems like below:

Ideas are valuable now, they may save lives.

We have a fantastic resource to help you make the most of your skills

If you are interested please keep checking this page for updates as they evolve and I will post the individual challenges to the group:

https://wiki.swarm-covid19.co.uk/design-challenges <https://wiki.swarm-covid19.co.uk/design-challenges>

Kind regards

— Paul


> On 24 Mar 2020, at 14:51, Tom Lake <tom at swansea.hackspace.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 02:28:20PM +0000, Paul Harwood wrote:
>> To be clear:
>> 
>> SWARM is an industry response to the COVID19 challenge and is not affiliated with Hackspace, requested by Welsh Government and affiliated with Industry Wales.
>> 
>> The WhatsApp link I sent is for the SWARM group.
> Thanks for the clarification :-)
> 
> As evidenced by this morning's reaction, I think it's safe to say plenty
> of the people on the list will be happy to volunteer their skills and
> equipment when the time comes.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Tom
> 
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