In the MakerSpace in Krefeld
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Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences manufactures parts for face protection visors in a 3D printer
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In use: 3D printer in the MakerSpace of the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences for ironing production.
Photo: Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences
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Krefeld / Mönchengladbach The 3D printers of the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences are currently standing still, students cannot work on them. Two university employees are now using it to manufacture components for protective visors.
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In the MakerSpace of the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, a high-tech workshop that is normally well attended by students during the semester, there is currently ghostly emptiness. Only the head of MakerSpace Bruno Bak is there, he takes turns with his colleague Andreas Kascha, all other employees are in the home office.
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Where else the babble of voices and rattling tools fill the room, you can only hear the soft whirring of the 3D printers that produce small plastic hangers. Temples that are currently important because they can be used to create face shields.
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“We have been producing components for Prusa Protective Face Shield in MakerSpace for a week,” says Bruno Bak. The idea came from the #MakerVsVirus community, which brings together people and organizations who, on the one hand, urgently need equipment or spare parts in the current situation and, on the other hand, are able to produce quickly and cheaply. Inquiries for such components come from hospitals in the region, for example.
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Prusa, a Czech company, enables the production of such protective visors through its open source face shields project by making the 3D print data available for download free of charge. “We hope that with our small production we can make a contribution to better protecting people who are exposed to the risk of infection every day,” says Bruno Bak.
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Six 3D printers are currently used in the MakerSpace. Components for 40 privacy shields are produced in this way every day.
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