I’m sure you’ve seen tons of posts videos and images of the 3D printed Face shields and masks. These can be printed for personal use or to be donated to those places that really need them.
My office has been dedicated solely to the printing of Face shields for OpShieldup.org started by Alan Puccinelli better known as @RepKord on twitter. The advantage of working with his organization is that they have all the components to finish the shields. Getting a hold of laser cut PETG and buttonhole elastic bands for assembling the masks has proven to be a challenge.
To date (4/20/2020) my printers have run almost non-stop and I’ve been able to ship some 140 full shields and an additional 1300+ components to assemble others at OpsShieldUp.org.
I’ve also designed an alternative head band for the Prusa Shields in case you cannot find the button hole plastic, it was designed for. Here’s a video on that one
You can download the STL for these headbands here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4261685
I created face masks for myself and the family. These are a bit more time consuming to make and I did have to re-scale these to fit the family. They do make for a cool family photo.
The design for these masks is from the same group that manages the e-Nable hands. You can read more about these masks here: https://3duniverse.org/2020/04/16/crowd-sourced-3d-printed-ppe-introducing-the-becmv1-buffalo-e-nable-crisis-mask/
I haven’t been alone in this. I setup a gofundme page to get donations to help me with the purchase of materials and shipping. To date I’ve raised over $400 and have spent:
- Shipping: $97.95 (some aditional shipping was also donated through other channels)
- Materials: $109.34.35 (shipping materials/transparents/elastic)
- Filament: $236.93 (GreenGate3D.com has also been kind enough to donate some rolls to the cause, Thank you!!)
More filament will need to be purchased and more shipping will happen. If you want to help me out please visit my gofundme page (https://www.gofundme.com/f/covid19-maks-shipping-costs) and donate as you see fit. all the money will go toward the making and shipping of masks and any money left (when this hopefully will soon be over) will get donated to some other cause.
If you want to do something yourself, here are some links to get you started
Prusa Face Shield: https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/25857-protective-face-shield-rc3
This is another very popular face shield that can be printed much faster: https://3dverkstan.se/protective-visor/
If you want to learn more and stay more up to date on what I’m doing:
subscribe to my Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/core3dtech
Follow me on twitter: @core3d_tech
Stay healthy, stay away from each other and soon this will all be over.
