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April 8, 2020
Plan C Profile: The Maker Mask Made in Seattle
A local hospital called a Seattle makerspace to ask if anyone could help out to provide them with masks and visors. A bit of a scramble ensued to figure out who could do what. Rory Larsen, a maker with a mechanical engineering background, jumped in and spent the night iterating […]
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April 7, 2020
Take A Look Into An Organized Community Response To Covid-19 With Smarter Every Day
As we’ve been covering this event, we’re hearing various groups talk about how they’re organized and how they’re planning out their actions to deliver much needed DIY supplies to front-line workers. Something that feels a little unusual in 2020 is that we haven’t seen much in terms of video breaking […]
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Tell Us What You’re Making For Front-Line Covid-19 Workers
Help us paint a more accurate picture
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Adafruit Deemed An Essential Service, A Glimpse Inside
Like most business out there, Adafruit closed down when things really started getting nasty. However, shortly after their shutdown, Adafruit was deemed as an “essential service and business for critical manufacturing”. This meant that with a skeleton crew, they could still ship essential components as well as add a new line […]
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April 6, 2020
How to Fold a No-Sew Bandana Face Mask
Here's how to whip up a quick mouth-and-nose cover using your favorite rag and two elastic ponytail holders.
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How To Get Your DIY Covid-19 Solutions Officially Medically Approved
When time is in short supply, what does it mean to be medically approved?
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April 4, 2020
We Need a New CCC for Recovery — the Civic Response Corps
The CRC will help coordinate local civic response efforts, train the unemployed, undereducated, and unskilled to participate and create a new civic infrastructure needed not only to respond to the crisis but ramp up the recovery.
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Cultivate Plants in Tight Spaces With Square Foot Gardening
Use a grid to get big gardening results in small spaces.
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April 3, 2020
The Benefits of Masks for All to Fight COVID-19
We discuss the recent history of face mask usage and promotion, and why we all need to be putting them on.
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Makers Wanted: Print PPE for NYC Now
When a Make: reader asked how to help his hometown of New York City fight Covid-19, we connected him with NYCMakesPPE.com, a coalition of New York makerspaces and fabrication shops who are cranking out face shields and other personal protective equipment (PPE) for their city’s beleaguered health workers. If you’ve […]
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