Arizona COVID-19 became even worse with the highest confirmed cases across the US after reopening economies, face shields and face mask strap remix are in need for front front-line healthcare workers and essential workers because they need to wear a face mask every shift and every day. Ear savers really help.
Since May 02, 2020, Phoenix AYLUS 3D printing club was established; many phoenix members have joined the club and started to order 3D printers, and 3D printing raw materials like filament and transparent films and started to set up and practice 3D printing. So far Phoenix Branch has had six 3D printer setups ready for 3D print projects. Currently, the phoenix branch mainly works on face shield and face mask strap remix. Each shield took around 1 hour to print, and in between printing it took me about 10 minutes to get the face shield off, scrape off the excess paint, and set up the printer for the next one.
3D printing is a very good project for our middle school and high school students because you could learn and practice 3D design using software; you could learn how 3D printing fundamentally works, which includes thermal, material properties, mechanical design, electronics, and automation. It really helps to build hands-on experience, not only paper and study but also troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, because there are always different problems that come up. We could use what you learn in school and apply them for 3D printing.
Here is a summary of our 3D printing club work and volunteer hours:
Ethan Wei: new 3D printer setup, calibration and troubleshooting (3 hours), 15 face shields (15 hours) and 5 Face mask remixes (2 hours);
Richard Cheng: existing 3D printer, 6 face shields, and 2 face mask remixes (6 hours)
Andrew Yang: new 3D printer setup, calibration (2 hours), 15 face shields (15 hours);
Eddie Zhang: New 3D printer setup and calibration (2 hours).
Andrea Zhang: New 3D printer setup and calibration (2 hours)
