-We had a conference call
with healthcare providers.
We were told very clearly,
"There is a need."
And then on Saturday morning,
I posted to social media,
"We're gonna start to try
and make these things.
If you have a 3-D printer at
home, would you be interested?
Just e-mail me."
By the end of the weekend,
we had almost 300 volunteers,
representing almost 600 printers
that had signed up.
First off, out in the world,
this amazing army of volunteers
is printing parts at home.
They drop them off
in a contactless drop-off box
on our deck,
or they ship them to us,
and in our vestibule,
we've set up a little station
where we decontaminate them
with Star San,
which is a disinfectant
used for brewing.
So, once the pieces have dried,
they're taken to
our other classroom,
where we're assembling them
with the visor piece,
which is being
laser-cut downstairs.
-So, our plan is to basically --
that we can fit 120 of these
on every sheet.
We just bought 30 sheets.
Should get us the first 3,600
from what we can get here.
-But then we snap them together,
and then our friends
at SewLab USA
lent us a hot cutter
so we can chop
the elastic bands superfast.
-Double layers of protection.
-Oh, good God.
-See what I'm saying?
I think that strap
should go on it.
-Yeah, that is definitely --
-So, this is 8.
I think we should go with 10.
-Then we're taking them
back downstairs
to our wood shop,
and we're using our wood shop
'cause that's where
the compressed air is
so we can clean the masks and do
a final quick quality control.
And we're bagging them
and packing them in cases of 10.
That gets tagged
with a case number,
the time and date
that it was put in,
so that if hospitals do want
a more sterile product,
they can quarantine it
for three days,
and then it could
be considered clean.
But I think we can get up
to a production of 500 a day
to make our goal of 10,000.
That'll be 20 days
of production.
