COVID-19 Projects
1) LaneyVisor Face Shields
Working with the Laney Fab Lab designed and produced 10,000 face shields that were donated to hospitals, nursing homes, schools and colleges, Native American health care facilities, etc. From this project our manufacturing partner, Wright Engineered Plastics, now has an injection molding tool which allows them to produce up to 15,000 face shields a week.
Working with the Laney Fab Lab designed and produced 10,000 face shields that were donated to hospitals, nursing homes, schools and colleges, Native American health care facilities, etc. From this project our manufacturing partner, Wright Engineered Plastics, now has an injection molding tool which allows them to produce up to 15,000 face shields a week.
2) Access to CAD software via virtual machines, remote desktops
With most of the schools in the Bay Area and in California holding online classes, there was a problem in that much of the manufacturing and engineering software the students use at school would not be available to them. Many students have ChromeBooks, or older computers, which cannot run the latest CAD software.
We have three initiatives that we're working on to help solve this.
1) We've set up virtual machines at a regional community college (Cabrillo) for students to get remote access to the software (Fusion360, Inventor, RevIt, and AutoCAD). To ensure we have enough servers to meet the capacity we are soliciting funding to buy additional servers. In addition we have some donated, refurbished servers on the way which we will also use to increase capacity.
2) In parallel with the virtual machines at the community college, we're also setting up VM's using Amazon Web Services. This will allow us to increase capacity if we cannot fully meet it with the server farm at Cabrillo. We are also working on obtaining funds to help with this effort.
3) Finally, there's a way for students to access the software at school through remote desktops. We've had demonstrations of remote desktops to help teachers in IT administrators assess if they could implement this at their school.
With most of the schools in the Bay Area and in California holding online classes, there was a problem in that much of the manufacturing and engineering software the students use at school would not be available to them. Many students have ChromeBooks, or older computers, which cannot run the latest CAD software.
We have three initiatives that we're working on to help solve this.
1) We've set up virtual machines at a regional community college (Cabrillo) for students to get remote access to the software (Fusion360, Inventor, RevIt, and AutoCAD). To ensure we have enough servers to meet the capacity we are soliciting funding to buy additional servers. In addition we have some donated, refurbished servers on the way which we will also use to increase capacity.
2) In parallel with the virtual machines at the community college, we're also setting up VM's using Amazon Web Services. This will allow us to increase capacity if we cannot fully meet it with the server farm at Cabrillo. We are also working on obtaining funds to help with this effort.
3) Finally, there's a way for students to access the software at school through remote desktops. We've had demonstrations of remote desktops to help teachers in IT administrators assess if they could implement this at their school.
