Based on the urgent email shooted by University Hospital to Lennon Rodgers, director of the Engineering Design Innovation Lab at University of Wisconsin-Madison asking could his lab make 1,000 face shields to protect staff testing and treating Covid-19 patients? Due to the out of stock of mask due to rise in demand for the same, the hospital is in need for more numbers to safeguard their team of protectors.
Rodgers, a talented engineer never discard this opportunity and rushed to nearby shop to grab the needed supplies to give a new design of face mask Then he made a hasty prototype at the UW maker space by adapting a construction visor and presented it to his wife, an anesthesiologist. “I was really proud of it, but she put it on and said ‘This is way too heavy,’” Rodgers recalls.( Source:Wired)
The hospital approved the prototype. Rodgers posted the design online for others to use and the ad hoc collective began to ramp up production. They have since sent more than than 1,000 face shields to the UW Hospital.
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The attraction is Ford has picked up the open source design, and expects to produce more than 75,000 this week at subsidiary Troy Design and Manufacturing in Plymouth, Michigan. The company plans to send the initial run to Detroit area hospitals.
The biggest impression was how lightweight it was.It’s featherlight.”
Source: Wired
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