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Can confirm - for example both the main maker space Fablab & local hackerspace Base 48 are making these face shields for medical personel here in Brno, the second largest city of Czech Republic.

I've also heard about regional schools using their 3D printers to make those.

You can see the shields, complete with the "Prusa" label on the 3D printed parts even in regular news coverage worn by medical personel.



3D-printing is great, but other forms or manufacturing are way faster. That’s how Apple is making 1.000.000 shields per day.


Sure, it you have the industrial tools needed for that. The Prusa shield needs a 3D printer (which many have or know someone that have it) a piece of laminating foil & hole punch (which you likely have if you have laminating foil). This way it can be made locally from local resources.

If you have a factory that can make a face shields by the milion, definitely go for it! Still, you need then to transfer the finished shields to all the many places that need them, which can somtimes be tricky with all the lockdowns and border checks in place.




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