MATERIALIZAÇÃO DIGITAL DE PROTETORES FACIAIS (FACE SHIELDS)

(Relato) UMA AÇÃO A FAVOR DA VIDA

Abstract

This paper presents an initiative by a group of professors in the Prototype and Models Laboratory (part of the UFRN School of Architecture) and the IFRN/ São Gonçalo do Amarante Campus, aiming to develop faceshields through rapid prototyping and digital fabrication as an emergency contribution to the protection of health workers of the Rio Grande do Norte state in Brazil, dealing with patients infected by the new coronavirus. It shares similarities with initiatives being developed by various FabLabs, Startups, as well as universities around the globe, attempting to supply the needed individual protection equipment, which industry production and government distribution cannot keep up with.