3D Crowd UK – Fund Raising Update – 4th April
Barely a few days after we got more ambitious about our goal as a movement, the public have smashed the new one! That means we’ve covered a bunch of material costs, and the generous organisers who stepped up and maxed out their credit cards to cover hard-to-get things like visors and elastic can breathe easily …
3DCrowd Yorkshire Hub
Engineers from the University of Sheffield have joined forces with 3DCrowd. Lead by Dr Pete Mylon from the University’s Faculty of Engineering, the team is utilising the world class engineering facilities in the University’s Diamond building to rapidly manufacture face shields for frontline NHS staff working in hospitals and healthcare practices. His team brings together ...
Support For 3D Crowd UK Keeps On Growing!
WOW! what progress! the amount of support pouring in from around the country and abroad is huge! we have offers of filament, materials and transportation, the final tooling for the visors is complete and we expect them coming in this week. we made another delivery to a hospital, this time over 100 to Morriston hospital …
Daily 3D Printing Capacity Approaches 1,000
The scope of this project has moved so far from the original plan when this was made, it started just as something to help us small-time printers cover the cost but its become so much larger! we have a daily capacity approaching 1000 units and still growing, we are planning bulk orders of vital materials …
Our first delivery to Brighton children’s hospital
We have deployment! Our first delivery to Brighton children’s hospital is in use and saving lives! We have huge plans at the moment for the purchase of bulk materials to allow for the production of up to 80 THOUSAND masks! We are currently pricing up the exact process based off our current cost of production …
Our Go Fund Me Hits £10,000!
Hello all! Thank you so much for getting us to £10,000, this funding allows a step-change in production volume and methods. The increased volume has necessitated a move towards a centralised assembly and distribution network allowing large orders to be sorted quicker. Huge thanks The 3DCrowd team
Expanding our capacity to help front line workers
Thanks everyone for the tremendous support and generosity. Your donations mean a lot to us and the frontline staff of the NHS who are often fighting this pandemic without the necessary equipment. With your help we have been able to greatly expand our capacity with coordination with several manufacturing institutions. There is work being done …
We’ve raised £8k in just over 48 hours!
Hello all! Thanks so much for the generous donations, we are already at £8k in just over 48 hours! I can now confirm we have purchased 80,000 clear visors to go with the 3D printed frames, allowing us to greatly increase the total output capacity of the project. If you require masks, please use this …
First 3D printed face shield orders complete
First order complete (With second shipment to follow tomorrow)! Masks delivered to a regional hospital. Thanks for all the support and contributions, great to see we are already over 80% of the way to our goal in under 48 hours. All the best The 3DCrowd team