Consolidated for COVID in Tampa Bay
Resources for Volunteers
Best Practices for Resource Providers
- 3DforCOVID – a community of 800+ makers, working to provide critical medical supplies to those treating patients with Coronavirus.
- 3D Printing Community Responds to Coronovirus, & Resources – updated daily at 3D Printing Industry
- 3D Printing & Coronavirus
- Lessons Learned from Making Nearly 170,000 Face Masks – Youtube video, the Fabric Patch
- Medical Gown Standards – FDA
- Professional and Home-Made Face Masks Reduce Exposure to Respiratory Infections among the General Population – 2009 study, NIH Library
- Sanitizing homemade face masks – Popular Science
- Strategies for Optimizing Supply of Isolation Gowns – CDC
- Sterilizing 3D Prints
- The Ultimate Guide to Homemade Face Masks for Coronavirus – materials and filter guide
- Tips for Wearing a Face Mask – Duke University –
- Use of Cloth Face Coverings to Help Slow the Spread of COVID-19 – CDC
- What Disinfectants and Cleaning Solutions Kill Coronavirus?
Resources for Children
Medical Gowns
- DIY Barrier Gown Instructions -Community Health Network
- DIY PPE Medical Isolation Gown Pattern (PDF) – UHSINC
- How to Make Protective Gowns for Coronavirus/COVID-19
Face Masks
- Current list of DIY masks for the COVID-19 pandemic – curated & ranked by rate of protection, construction time, with relevant notes
- Pocket Face Mask Pattern – for filter insertion
- Stopgap Face Mask – National Institutes of Health 3D Print Exchange – has undergone review in a clinical setting and is recommended when fabricated as instructed.
- Maker Mask – a fully 3D Printable health grade mask
Updated and Archived April 2023
This page was created during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic when the world was shutting down and AMRoC Fab Lab whiled away the lockdown times in community collaborations to create critically needed PPE in the Tampa Bay area. While we’ve now settled into wary cohabitation with the novel coronavirus, the DIY community created a lot of useful and interesting resources and solutions which we’re preserving here.
The original purpose of this page was to provide an easy-to-access resource for both the Tampa Bay healthcare community, and those seeking to help the healthcare community with their time and skills. It’s purpose now is to serve not just as an archival page – COVID-19 is still very much among us – but to continue as a resource that can serve other healthcare needs during emergencies.
Here you can find a directory of community resource providers with contact information and a collection of curated resources on making PPE and related equipment and items. We hope this page makes it easier for those needing help, to connect with those trying to help.
We remain Consolidated for COVID.
Directory of COVID-19 Community-based Resource Suppliers in Tampa Bay
Note to healthcare providers seeking resources and PPE support: Please be aware that the majority of items listed here by the groups providing them are being assembled in homes, makerspaces and fab labs with every best intent to produce them in a safe manner, to be as useful as possible. Unless otherwise noted, items are intended as stop gap solutions only, to back fill when approved medical supplies are unavailable or in critically short supply.
Other Local & National Groups
A listing of local and national groups known to be making or coordinating PPE.
Local
- MRG3D – AMRoC Fab Lab PPE Community Partner
- Open Source COVID19 Medical Supplies Local Response Group – Central & South Florida – Facebook group
- Suncoast Science Center Faulhaber Fab Lab – Sarasota
National
Open Source Projects
- JPL Designed COVID-19 Respirators – released as open source
- Open collaboration on COVID-19 on GitHub
- Open hardware projects working to solve COVID-19 – Good article & projects overview on OpenSource.com
- Open Source COVID-19 Medical Supplies Facebook Group – Medically reviewed
- Open Source COVID-19 Medical Supplies – Local Response Group, Central & South FL
- Open Source Validation Tests for Open Source COVID-19 Ventilator Projects
- Open Source Ventilator
- Pandemic Pressure Control Ventilator – Hackaday project
- Specifications for Simple Open Source Mechanical Ventilator
- VentilAid – Open source ventilator in beta test phase
- WikiFactory Open Community for Viral Response – open source projects for healthcare
Other Projects
- Folding at Home – a distributed computing project for simulating protein dynamics
- Henry Ford Health Systems Innovative DIY Solutions to Personal Protection Equipment Shortages
- HP COVID-19 3D Printing Resources
- DIY Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI) Cabinet – for cleaning PPE