As we're gearing up for a Remote Repair Café here in Cville, I thought I'd share this recent article from Apartment Therapy about how to repair broken lamps.

Since lamps are one of the most common items that need fixing at the Repair Café the Cville Time Bank puts on twice a year, this seemed like a good article to share with anyone looking for an easy place to start doing some of their own repair work.

Keep on keepin' on through isolation, and look for more details soon about the Remote Repair Café!

 Last update: 4/15/2020 @ 7 pm

If you have a 3D printer, desktop cutter (Cricut or Silhouette), or a sewing machine, Masks for Cville is coordinating volunteer efforts for makers here in Charlottesville. The Cville Craft Aid Network has patterns for masks, skull caps, and gowns on their website. Glowforge has an ear protector strap pattern for laser cutters here.

Latest (4/13/2020): UVA and Martha Jeff need 4000 3D printed ear protector straps.

PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PPE)

If you have any surplus PPE, you can donate it at Support Cville.


CODING:

• Center for Civic Innovation Microgrants
  • The Center for Civic Innovation, a project of Smart Cville, is offering microgrants to any community member leveraging data or technology to support our community in response to the COVID-19 crisis.  From idea stage to active/ongoing projects, we have a small fund to support you.  Each microgrant is worth up to $200 and grant applications will be open until the money is exhausted.
• IBM COVID-19 Call for Code Challenge
  • "Build a coding solution that can provide immediate crisis communication, enhanced remote education, or stronger community cooperation. "

FOOD SERVICE:

• Creator food take-out air lock
  • "We’ve open sourced the design for the Creator Transfer Chamber so other restaurants can build their own using materials available at local hardware stores."

OTHER MAKER LINK ROUNDUPS

• Make: Magazine roundup
• NYC Makes roundup and info
• No Tech magazine ventilators and other resources
• Nation of Makers links
• Vector Space (Lynchburg makerspace) links

CHARLOTTESVILLE MUTUAL AID INFO

• Support Cville mutual aid hub
• Charlottesville Tomorrow's COVID-19 coverage
• Covid-19 Response in Charlottesville podcast by Sean Tubbs

OLDER LINKS (MAY NOT BE UP TO DATE)

Facemasks

• Free Sewing pattern
• Another pattern (PDF)
• Lowell makes 3D printed mask (not recommended due to porosity concerns with printed parts)

If you have a 3D printer or laser cutter, please consider adding it to the database here. Members of the UVA community are trying to get an idea of what sort of manufacturing capability we have in town if we need to start making PPE for the hospital.

Skull caps:
UVA is looking for skull caps right now. Contact LaDelle Gay from UVA Health Volunteer Services. She will be happy to meet anyone at a convenient drop off location. You can call her at 434-806-1357 to arrange a pick up.

• Reversible skull cap pattern
• Another pattern
• And if those don't suit your fancy, someone from TimeBank recommended this Etsy shop's patterns

Masks:

• Cville Craft Aid Network
  • Find mask requests and info on how to make masks
• Harvard's Get Us PPE has a section for maker's here.
• Jo-Ann's Make to Give
  • drop off masks at Jo-Ann and get patterns
• Which DIY mask pattern should you use?
• What's the best material for a mask?
• Digitally fabricated masks
  • A laser cut mask

Face shields

• Prusa printable face shield
• Delve Open Face Shield v4

Ventilators and other medical projects:

• Open Source COVID-19 Medical Supplies (OSCMS) FB group
  • FB group working on open source medical supplies to respond to COVID-19.
• OSCMS Guide
  • A guide put together by the OSCMS peeps on current progress and ways to help.
• Prusa 3D printable pandemic necessities contest
  • "Stay creative and cabin fever won’t stand a chance!"
• Ponoko $1M grant for hardware businesses fighting COVID-19
  • "Inspired by Gui Cavalcanti’s Open Source COVID Medical Supplies and what may be a harsh re-run of our very own 2007-2008 GFC startup experience, we’re offering $1 million in Ponoko account credits for discounted making & shipping services for up to 1,000 startup & small hardware businesses to stay in business so you can continue to build our future and improve the world."
• 3D Hubs COVID-19 Manufacturing Fund
  • "Through our COVID-19 Manufacturing Fund, we’ve set up a way to bring together engineers who’ve designed parts that now need to be manufactured but lack the crucial funding to get it done, and those who are able to contribute the funds to make these parts a reality."