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Helpful Engineering’s Mask Project produced Origami Face Shields as a crucial design to provide easily-produced PPE. Thousands of their face shields have been produced on the East Coast.

Nick Moser is the project team lead for the Mask Project, creators of the Open Standard Respirator and the Origami Mask. In this interview, he explains his background and how he got involved with Helpful Engineering.

Helpful Engineering’s Open Standard Respirator (OSR) collaborative group has created a respirator mask called the (OSR-M1) serving as an alternative to elastomeric face-fitting N95 respirators.

Respiraworks set out to create a ventilator that is affordable and easy to build in countries with developing economies and low-resource communities. COVID-19 does not discriminate by national borders or GDP.

A platform to fulfill the needs of quarantined people in need by connecting them with volunteer networks.

A team of volunteers is creating an app to measure blood oxygen saturation and pulse rate in order to help individuals determine if they should contact their healthcare provider.

A database from Helpful Engineering of local volunteers in 3D printing, laser cutting, injection molding, and other things.

Rather than completely redesigning conventional face shields, the baseball cap face visor repurposes commonly found materials.