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The media is full of reports of COVID-19, better known as coronavirus. It has made most of the world go into lockdown! This is so we can all reduce the spread of the virus by staying at home. Also, this has meant many people are working from home - how the world has changed!
At Noble Niche, we understand the challenges our community is facing during this unprecedented time. As a local business, we are committed to doing our part to support our neighbors and help ease the burden of this crisis.
As 3D printing continues to evolve, it's no surprise that the prices of PLA ABS and PETG filaments will also continue to fluctuate daily. But don't let this discourage you from pursuing your passion for 3D modelling! You have the power to create incredible designs and bring your ideas to life. In fact, we've provided access to some awesome 3D models for you to explore through the links provided. We encourage you to download them now and let your imagination run wild. Remember, the only limit is your creativity, so keep pushing boundaries and keep innovating. Happy printing!
Coronavirus – What is it?
Coronaviruses are a group of viruses that cause disease in animals. Seven, including the new virus, have leapt to humans, but mostly cause cold-like symptoms. Covid-19 is related to Sars (Severe acute respiratory syndrome) which swept around the globe in 2002/2003. The virus-infected approx 8,000 people and killed around 800, but it soon ran itself out. This was because most of those affected were ill, so it was easier to control. Covid-19 differs from these two other corona viruses in that the spectrum of disease is broad, with around 80% of cases leading to a mild infection. There may also be many people carrying the virus and displaying no symptoms, making it even harder to control. Around 20% of Covid-19 cases have been classed as “severe”. The current death rate varies between 0.7% and 3.4% depending on the location and, crucially, access to good hospital care. Source – Telegraph
Covid 19 Faceshields
With key workers still on the front-line, they are facing a tough situation. Stocks on protective equipment is low or is being distributed to more demanding places meaning they have no protection against the spread of the virus. As 3D printer enthusiasts, we have all the tools and materials to help them out! It has been global cooperation to get more PPE equipment out to those on the front-line, and we at Inov3D are helping where we can. Care workers, maternity wards, residential care homes are all screaming out for protective equipment. The shields we first started with took 3 hours to print each one. This made it challenging to keep up with demand. So upon further investigation, we have found some more shields that can print within the hour. As a result, we can get more printed at the same time it took to print just one! You can find out more info on these shields at 3Dverkstan .
We are a hobbyist is in the 3D printing industry and would like to offer our service to help to 3D print visors free. Our goal is to help our essential workers, who are working with no protection. We are reaching out to the community to see if anyone will donate materials or able to help with a small donation. We are continuously printing for hours to get the shields ready to send out. amazon wishlist In every bag, we have put in head straps to help with when wearing a mask to prevent the elastic rubbing against their ears. Also, as a small gift, we designed a keyring with “ Thank You NHS”. Both the head straps and keyrings are unpainted.
Covid-19 Kieran Watson Inspired Drawing – Fridge Magnet
Kieran Watson is 11 years old from Falkirk Scotland, who drew a tribute to frontline workers showing them “holding the country up” it then went viral on social media and has been shared over 170,000 times. We asked his parents Paul Watson and Jennifer Watson if we can have the honour to turn the drawing into a 3D Printed fridge magnet. The owners of Inov3D William Donald and Lyn Stewart made this into a 3D Printed Fridge magnet with the help from our team member Casey Rinehart who designed it for you us. We have now been selling them on our ETSY store, which it overwhelm us with how much orders have come in. We are doing our best to raise funds to buy gloves and face mask to also give out with our shields, but for just now we are limited on doing this.
50% of the money will go to our funding to help the front-line workers
Covid-19 fridge magnet Buy Now on Etsy .
Willows Animal Sanctuary
We are very grateful for any help we receive. Any donations that are left once the COVID-19 virus is over, we would like to donate to Willows Animal Sanctuary & Animal-Assisted Therapy Unit. “Willows provides a lifelong home for neglected and abused animals. We also run a Therapy unit for vulnerable members of the public, and we are a three-star Scottish visitor attraction” GoFundMe
Ended now - over £1000 of products were bought from their amazon wish list
Keeping the Face Shield Clean
We make the face shields with two types of plastic PLA And PVC. The printed part may be onetime use as pla is porous, you may sterilize if you have access to the correct methods for pla. We recommend not to use these in surgery. Do you want to learn more about purifying pla and PVC have a look at industrial spec on methods on sterilizing plastic. We also make the head straps out of PLA.
By all means, we are not in the medical industry and are just doing this to help the NHS, care homes and others who want the 3D printed shields every little protection helps to STOP THE SPREAD OF THE VIRUS. We are only hobbyists trying to help, just like most of the other people.
Sponsors
William Donald put a post on coronavirus Peterhead community page on Facebook. “Asking does anyone have laminate sheets” this excellent lady came to me and said we have 800 also we can laminate them for you.
This sign maker in Peterhead helped us when we needed help by providing us with a corner cutter and acetate sheet. Thank you, Fred McLean And George Davidson.
This fantastic company let us purchase 7KG of Silver PLA Filament at 95 Percent off. We can’t thank them enough for this. It will help us to keep producing more shields! Have a look at what they offer on their amazon store. I’m sure you will find something helpful.
Thank you so much for the 2000 laminating pouches and for donating a laminator to Natalie zeindler-way means a lot. Because of her one breaking down. “Peterhead Power Station is a multi-unit station owned and operated by SSE plc near Boddam and the A90, just south of Peterhead, in Aberdeenshire in the northeast of Scotland.”
We have been working with Artillery since they started. Some of our team members even got the chance to review the Sidewinder X1 and Artillery Genius. Artillery now wants to sponsor us with their Sidewinder X1 for 3D printing visors. It took no time at all to set up the Printer and perfect prints straight away. We love it thank you Lenu Lu for giving us this opportunity may we work closely.
Shenzhen Yuntuchuangzhi Technology Co., Ltd, a former well-known 3D printer accessories supplier in China, has been supplying parts to China’s major 3D printer manufacturers for years. With years of experience, teaming up with skilful domestic and foreign engineers, entered the 3D printer R&D area in 2018.
We got introduced to Paul Mewse from moray east, and they wanted to sponsor us with buying our ENTIRE amazon wish list £1260. Kirsty Moir was then in charge of purchasing the products. Thank you so much for everything you have done. It has helped us with printing the visors and headband a lot quicker.
Moray East is a highly competitive offshore wind project which was granted consent (1,116MW) in 2014 by the Scottish Government. In 2017 it won a 950MW contract for the difference at competitive auction, which set the price of power generated at £57.50 per MWhr and will be delivered early in the next decade.
We can save millions of tonnes of Co2 over the lifetime of our offshore wind farm. Offshore wind farms have the advantage of accessing higher wind speeds and mitigating the key concern of wind turbines. The Moray East wind farm will join one of very few large-scale wind farms in Scotland and be able to power approximately one million homes. This will save an extensive amount of Co2 from entering the atmosphere every year when compared to gas-fired power plants.
Thistle Ladies Clay Shooting - Thank you to Thistle Ladies Clay Shooting for the £100 donation, we are glad to help your daughter and her colleagues at Gmeds.
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