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Crowd Sourcing COVID-19 Solutions Through Competition
As we head into our 2nd full month of COVID-19 related social restrictions and still climbing infection and death rates, more organizations and agencies have turned to crowd-sourcing solutions through public challenges and competitions. Hackster.io has always been at...
A Curated Guide to Learning at Home from AMRoC Fab Lab
While we've been curating resources for community-based COVID-19 relief efforts, for our Consolidated for COVID page, we've also been filing away learning-at-home resources we've encountered along the way. We've had an educational Resource Page on the AMRoC Fab Lab...
Join the MRG 3D Halo Shields Project & Help Protect Health Professionals Against COVID-19
With Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in critically short supply and the costs of some supplies now increased over 1000%,efforts to resupply PPE at the local level are more important than ever. We've shared information and resources about some of those efforts, but...
Consolidated for COVID in Tampa Bay
In the interest of making it easier to connect with the growing collection of community groups and resources in the Tampa Bay area, we've created a dedicated page and resource directory called Consolidated for COVID . The purpose of this page is to provide an...
Useful Contributions for COVID-19 PPE Relief Supplies Production at AMRoC
People have been sending us inquires about items that might be useful to donate to AMRoC to help with COVID-19 relief supplies production, for which we're very grateful. To help you help us to better help others (it's Helpers all the way down!), we've put together...
Making it Safe – Updated
Updated March 28 to include Tinkerine Sanitation Protocol and AMRoC Safety Protocols for the Production of COVID-19 relief effort items. __________________________ The DIY list of ways people can help out during the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grow daily, with...
COVID-19 Community Support Resources at AMRoC Fab Lab – Updated
Updated March 28 Download Full capabilities list here Production safety protocols here. Useful donations list here. _______________________ AMRoC Fab Lab is a 7500 sq. ft. public Fabrication Laboratory in Tampa, FL., and while the Fab Lab is principally an educational...
Folding at Home for COVID-19 : A Closer Look
The Folding@Home program is a distributed computing platform that is dedicated to finding cures for some of humanity's biggest health problems. The program was started to run predictive algorithms on the folding of proteins. When proteins fold incorrectly, it can...
Making that Matters During Times that Try Us
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, - Charles Dickens, Tale of Two Cities These are interesting times we're in, and while we're a...
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