GENERATOR is making MEDICAL Reusable N95 masks shields for our local HOSPITALS which will SAVE LIVES.
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Generator and some of their medical, educational, manufacturing, and engineering partners are prototyping personal protective equipment (PPE) in response to requests from the UVM Medical Center. They are working to immediately start producing equipment including face shields, N95 masks, and ventilators to protect medical professionals on the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic. Please join the maker community in these efforts by donating to our COVID-19 Relief Fund.
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Generator and partners rapidly prototyping PPE for medical community
BURLINGTON: Generator, a makerspace in Burlington’s South End, is prototyping personal protective equipment (PPE) in response to requests from the UVM Medical Center. Generator and some of their medical, educational, manufacturing, and engineering partners are working to immediately start producing equipment including face shields, N95 masks, and ventilators to protect medical professionals on the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Seven Days – Generator Maker Space Prototyping Face Shields for Hospitals
Burlington maker space Generator has begun prototyping personal protective equipment for area hospitals in response to nationwide shortages amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Members of the maker space are currently working on designs for face shields, N95 masks, and ventilators — all of which are in short supply as hospitals prepare for an expected hike in patients due to COVID-19.
The face shields — which allow health care professionals to wear a single mask for longer durations — are ready for mass distribution, according to Generator’s executive director Meg Hammond. Officials from the University of Vermont Medical Center planned to test out the prototypes Thursday afternoon, she said.
VTDigger – Generator and partners rapidly prototyping PPE for medical community
BURLINGTON: Generator, a makerspace in Burlington’s South End, is prototyping personal protective equipment (PPE) in response to requests from the UVM Medical Center. Generator and some of their medical, educational, manufacturing, and engineering partners are working to immediately start producing equipment including face shields, N95 masks, and ventilators to protect medical professionals on the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Jake Blend, Generator’s Rapid Prototyping Shop Manager, is leading the effort to create plastic face shields. Blend is utilizing open source designs from a medical devices group that formed online and surged to over 30,000 members in recent months. Engineers, product designers, materials experts, and medical professionals around the world are editing, prototyping, and testing each other’s designs.
WCAX3 – Local fabricator working to produce medical face shields
BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) You’ve heard about shortages of personal protective equipment. Face shields and masks and how the state is buying up as many as it can.
That effort is spreading locally.
Our Cat Viglienzoni took a look at how a Burlington fabricator space is close to finishing the design for one key piece of equipment.
Jake Blend is Generator’s rapid prototype shop manager. For the past couple weeks — he’s been holed up inside their Burlington building, working on these face shields.