Can I Borrow Your Printer? I'm Fighting a Pandemic (Science During a Pandemic #2), with Jess Cox

Not Another Science Podcast

When a pandemic disrupts your 3D printing operations, what do you do? Well, if you’re the team at Augment Bionics, you shift gears and start mass producing Personal Protective Equipment. Augment Bionics is a student start up from the University of Edinburgh, and in normal times their engineers design and print prosthetic limbs. Financed by a GoFundMe campaign, they are currently making 10 000 face shields a week, which are donated to the NHS. Tom talks to Jess Cox, the social media and marketing lead at Augment Bionics, to find out more.

You can find Augment Bionics on Twitter, on Facebook, and on Instagram.

Check out their website for more information on how they make prosthetic limbs, and PPE.

And if you can, please donate to their GoFundMe. If you can help in other ways, get in touch with them via their website.

Other titles considered for this episode included: PPE, Fresh Off The Press; Mind the PPE Gap, Rushed to Print, and Having a Shield Day.

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