TSD users have been active in helping the world fight COVID-19 by printing crazy amount of PPEs. Their heroic effort is also supported by TSD's offer that gives each of them 2 months of Pro account for FREE!
By popular demands, this offer is now being extended to people without a pre-existing TSD account, as long as you are a member of a group dedicated to printing PPEs.
This is a guest post by Steve Wynveen. Steve Wynveen is a mechanical engineer that is a technician at heart.
As you are probably well aware, there is a shortage of PPE for hospital and other medical field staff. Froedert & Medical College of Wisconsin have posted plans for people to sew 100% cotton face masks. Several other patterns for sewists exist as well.
The Froedert ask for public help:
The Froedert mask plan:
https://www.froedtert.com/sites/default/files/files/2020-03/MaskInstructions_V2.pdf
3D printing hobbyists in The Spaghetti Detective community banded together to print PPEs for healthcare workers in their local community to help them fight COVID-19.
3D printing and virus are two things that usually don't intersect. But now when the world is upended by the coronavirus crisis, they do - in a way that not many people would expect.
The Spaghetti Detective is a 3D printing platform with tens of thousands of active 3D printing hobbyists.
When the coronavirus is attacking, they act together to save the world.
How? By designing and 3D printing thousands and thousands of face shields and masks and donate them to hospitals and healthcare workers who are in separate need of protective equipments; or by 3D printing things like door opener for touchless operation; or by simply showing gratitude to people who are fighting on the front lines.
Update on 04/05/2020: Since the start of the pandemic, TSD users have more than doubled the hours they print every day. This graph tells it all:
If you have a 3D printer, put it to good use by joining tens of thousands of us in the fight against coronavirus. If everyone one of us prints 10 face shields or masks a day, we will have an unmatched capacity of producing millions of protective gears in a very short amount of time.
Join us in this banded effort!
