Our Story

After COVID-19 was officially declared a pandemic and the city of Toronto went into isolation a group of makers from the TTL Makerspace volunteered the use of their shop resources and expertise to help address shortages of PPE. We are a veteran industrial designer, a PHD engineering student, a software engineer and a 3D Printing Enthusiast.

While working in isolation the team gathered the printers and materials then downloaded popular open source face shield designs for evaluation. We started to prototype PPE equipment and shared these mockups to local hospitals modifying the designs based on invaluable feedback to better suit their needs. Further more we leaned on our own experience to improve the designs for functionality, comfort and production speed. In their first week the team assembled more than 200 pieces of PPE that have donated these to research facilities and hospitals. We are currently producing this amount per day in two different styles: One sterizable one for re-use and one that is single use. All current production is driven by specific requests from various hospitals in the GTA and all equipment we fabricate is donated.

The team also expanded beyond PPE and started to partner with local researchers to help their COVID-19 efforts, assisting with the rapid prototyping and production of ventilator parts for research/testing purposes and started fabricating intubation tables with our CNC Router.