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In Makery this week: special makers' mobilization against Covid-19 (1)

Covid-19: French makers’ unprecedented mobilization

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International conference coordinated by JOGL’s OpenCovid19 Initiative on April 8, 2020.

In France, the mobilization of makers and fablabs against Covid-19 is unprecedented, but they are left to liaise directly with health care workers and civil society.
 

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Covid-19: Sterilizing masks with UV rays, by Hackerfarm in Japan

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Hyjeia Project © Hackerfarm

Akiba and his Hackerfarm team have developed an open source system for sterilizing and decontaminating masks or other objects using ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI).
 

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Covid-19: Electrolab designs an open source syringe pump

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Open syringe pump prototype designed by Electrolab in Nanterre. CC BY-SA 4.0.

Hospitals that are mobilized against Covid-19 are in short supply of electric syringe pumps. Electrolab is developing an open source prototype.
 

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Covid-19: MIT launches 2D cut, one-piece face shield

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MIT's Project Magnus Face Shield.

MIT’s Project Magnus has designed a model for a complete face shield that can be cut out in one (foldable) piece from a single flat sheet.
 

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Covid-19: Japanese biohackers develop Ninja qPCR for real-time testing

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NinjaPCR © Hisashin

In Tokyo, biohacker Shingo Hisakawa is converting his NinjaPCR open source thermal cycler into a real-time DNA amplifier, which could test for the coronavirus Covid-19.
 

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Tracing Covid-19 patients while preserving privacy?

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"Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (DP-3T)" protocol workflow © DR

A team of European researchers offers a decentralized protocol that could store relevant information on people without mass collecting personal data.
 

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Covid-19: Why proximity-tracing is important and its integrity should be contextual

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Processing and storing of observed ​Ephemeral IDs. Artwork by Wouter Lueks

Feeding the debate on proximity-tracing during Covid-19 pandemia, Denis Roio, aka Jaromil from Dyne.org, challenges some polarizing beliefs forming around the concepts of privacy and urgency.
 

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Covid-19: New forms of rationality and liberation

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Jude Law in Gattaca (1997)

Denis Roio aka Jaromil shares here his further thinkings about the development of an ethical contact-tracing solution.
 

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Covid-19, mobilized in photos: Delivering protective gear with Makerscovid.Paris

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Out for delivery to Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital. © Quentin Chevrier

Capturing the moment for distributed production of PPE, photographer Quentin Chevrier followed deliveries around a city on lockdown by the collective Makers x Covid Paris.
 

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Makers x Covid Paris: “We literally heard hospitals calling for help”

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Volunteers assemble face shields at Woma in Paris. Photo: Quentin Chevrier

Makery relays voices from fabrication spaces federated around the collective Makers x Covid Paris to support the city's frontline workers.
 

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