- [Narrator] 3D printing has come a long way

- [旁白]3D打印已經走過了漫長的道路

in the past decade.

在過去十年中。

It's found a home in architecture, biotech, prosthetics,

它在建築、生物技術、假肢方面找到了家。

really anywhere quick prototyping happens.

真正的快速原型設計發生在任何地方。

It's an important technology,

這是一項重要的技術。

but it's not often front-page news,

但這並不經常是頭版新聞。

or it wasn't until this.

或者說直到現在才有。

- Massive shortfalls when it comes to testing

- 在測試方面存在巨大的不足之處

and personal protective equipment.

和個人防護設備。

- And where's the PPE?

- 而個人防護設備在哪裡？

- Still a crucial demand for personal protective equipment.

- 對個人防護設備的需求仍然至關重要。

- [Reporter] Volunteers are using 3D printers

- [記者]志願者正在使用3D打印機

to craft protective gear

製作防護裝備

for the ones on the front lines of COVID-19.

為那些在COVID-19前線的人。

- [Narrator] 3D printing has become crucial

- [旁白]3D打印已成為關鍵

for producing medical equipment on the fly.

用於即時生產醫療設備。

And the 3D printing community has rallied.

而3D打印社區已經集結起來。

- [Alan] This is all stuff that's bagged and ready.

- [艾倫]這都是已經裝袋準備好的東西。

- [Narrator] We got in touch with a handful of people.

- [旁白]我們與少數幾個人取得了聯繫。

- Hi, how are you?

- 嗨，你好嗎？

- Can you hear me okay?

- 你能聽到我說話嗎？

- [Narrator] Individual makers, researchers,

- [旁白]個人製造者，研究者。

and companies small and large.

和大大小小的公司。

- Sorry, I'm just downloading Skype

- 對不起，我只是在下載Skype

for the first time in a while.

這是一段時間以來的第一次。

- [Narrator] And we asked them,

- [旁白] 我們就問他們。

what's it been like to drop everything

放下一切是什麼感覺？

and fight COVID in their own way?

並以自己的方式對抗COVID？

(gentle upbeat music)

(輕柔歡快的音樂)

- So tell me how you got started with all of this?

- 那麼，告訴我你是如何開始做這一切的？

- You know we were all feeling a bit helpless

- 你知道我們都感到有點無助

as to how we might contribute.

至於我們可以如何做出貢獻。

- And actually when we first realized

- 而實際上，當我們第一次意識到

there's gonna be a shortage of ventilators,

將會出現呼吸機短缺的情況。

the first thing I thought to do was go in my shed

我想做的第一件事就是到我的棚子裡去。

and pull out my old EMT jump bag.

並掏出我的舊EMT跳袋。

I got out my oxygen tank and all my masks

我拿出了我的氧氣瓶和所有的面罩

and my VVMs that I had to try to start thinking,

和我的VVMs，我不得不嘗試開始思考。

what could we do with this?

我們能用這個做什麼？

- I sat down in the hackerspace

- 我在黑客空間坐下來

and some people saw what I was doing.

而有些人看到了我在做什麼。

And they thought it was cool and asked if they could help.

他們認為這很酷，並問他們是否可以幫忙。

We've kind of snowballed from there.

我們從那裡開始就像滾雪球一樣。

- We were able to, within less than 12 hours,

- 我們能夠，在不到12小時內。

mobilize our largest digital fabrication lab.

調動我們最大的數字製造實驗室。

Then I also fired up my machines in my lab.

然後我也啟動了我實驗室裡的機器。

- So we went from initial idea and initial design

- 是以，我們從最初的想法和最初的設計

from those hospital's two weeks ago,

兩週前從這些醫院出來。

to now having a final design and manufacturing lines

到現在有了最終的設計和製造線

being set up and a clinical use into hospitals.

正在建立和進入醫院的臨床使用。

- Thing is originally,

- 事情本來就是這樣。

I was trying to approach hospital systems,

我正試圖接近醫院系統。

and two weeks ago they were still like,

而兩個星期前，他們還在像。

"ah, you know, send us some designs

"啊，你知道的，給我們發一些設計圖吧

"and we'll look at it maybe".

"我們也許會看一看"。

Then literally like three or four days later

然後真的像三或四天後一樣

the same hospital systems were like,

同樣的醫院系統也是如此。

"how many can you make me,

"你能給我做多少個。

"and how quickly can you get them to me?"

"你能多快地把它們交給我？"

- What's the piece that you're actually making right now?

- 你現在真正在做的作品是什麼？

- This is what we're doing here.

- 這就是我們在這裡所做的事情。

- If you're in an emergency situation

- 如果你處於緊急情況下

you would get a bag valve mask,

你會得到一個袋狀氣門的面具。

so these guys are the standard bag valve masks or BVMs.

所以這些人是標準的袋式氣閥面罩或BVM。

When you're using it, all that you really end up doing,

當你在使用它時，你真正最終要做的就是。

is just taking these bags and squeezing them.

就是拿著這些袋子去擠壓它們。

So our thought was why not just create

所以我們的想法是，為什麼不直接創建

the simplest possible ventilator

最簡單的呼吸機

that can pretty much just take these bags

基本上可以只拿這些袋子

and do the squeezing of them.

並對其進行擠壓。

- This is the visor portion and this is what's 3D printed.

- 這是遮陽板部分，這就是3D打印的東西。

And it just fits on my head like that.

而且它就像這樣戴在我的頭上。

It's important that then the doctor, or nurse,

重要的是，然後醫生，或護士。

or healthcare professional can take it off like this

或保健專業人員可以像這樣摘掉它

so that it keeps their hands away from their face.

以便讓他們的手遠離自己的臉。

- And then the front, this is like a binder cover,

- 然後是前面，這就像一個活頁夾的封面。

or an overhead transparency sheet,

或一張高架透明紙。

and then it's three hole punched and it matches up

然後它被打了三個孔，並與之相匹配。

to the three pegs.

到三個釘子上。

- You can see it's about a 6 inch long nasal swab

- 你可以看到它是一個大約6英寸長的鼻拭子

and it'll collect a nasal specimen

它將收集一個鼻腔標本

and provide an accurate test result,

並提供準確的測試結果。

even if you're asymptomatic.

即使你是無症狀的。

- Another design I have here is just a door handle.

- 我這裡的另一個設計只是一個門把手。

You know they found that one of the primary ways

你知道他們發現，一個主要的方法是

things get passed is by just touching things.

事物的傳遞是通過觸摸事物。

You know, touching the door

你知道，觸摸門

which is why everybody's wiping doors down all the time.

這就是為什麼每個人都在不停地擦拭門。

But the idea is you strap this on a hospital door,

但這個想法是你把這個綁在醫院的門上。

now you can use your forearm.

現在你可以用你的前臂。

- 3D printing is often used for prototyping

- 3D打印經常被用於原型製作

rather than manufacturing at a high volume.

而不是大批量的生產。

What's it been like to totally change gears

完全換檔的感覺是什麼？

and really churn out material?

並真正攪動材料？

- I keep saying,

- 我一直在說。

this is actually a really easy thing to make,

這實際上是一個非常容易做的事情。

but doing thousands of them,

但做了成千上萬的。

this isn't a making problem, it's a logistics problem.

這不是一個製造問題，而是一個物流問題。

- (laughs) I've got a pile of these.

- 笑）我有一大堆這樣的東西。

I have this tiny little machine at my desk

我的辦公桌上有這個小小的機器

and it was making one of these every 14 minutes.

而它每14分鐘就會製造一個這樣的東西。

Yesterday I had a lot of email and stuff to catch up on,

昨天，我有很多電子郵件和東西要補上。

and so as I was sitting at my desk,

是以，當我坐在我的辦公桌前時。

every 15 minutes I would reach over,

每隔15分鐘，我就會把手伸過去。

I would reach over and just start it again,

我就會伸手過去，直接再啟動它。

start it again, start it again.

再次啟動，再次啟動。

- In our network we have a total

- 在我們的網絡中，我們總共有

of 189 printers contributing.

在189家印刷廠中，有一家做出了貢獻。

So as of today actually,

所以從今天起，實際上。

we have donated 12,650 shields

我們已經捐贈了12,650塊盾牌

to our New York City hospitals.

到我們紐約市的醫院。

- We're getting dozens of emails a day

- 我們每天都會收到幾十封電子郵件

from hospitals and larger health systems.

來自醫院和較大的衛生系統。

We're able to manufacture 100,000 plus swabs per day.

我們每天能夠生產100,000多個棉籤。

Even just one State might occupy

即使只是一個國家也可能佔據

our entire production facility as it is today.

我們的整個生產設施就像今天這樣。

- But right now we're feeding a bottomless pit of demand

- 但現在我們正在餵養一個無底洞的需求

in terms of the hospitals

在醫院方面

are taking as many as they can get.

正在儘可能多地接受他們所能得到的。

- And with a shortage or a greater need up the chain,

- 而在產業鏈上游出現短缺或更大需求的情況下。

there are so many people still wanting.

有這麼多人仍然想要。

- How have you been feeling about doing this work,

- 你做這項工作的感覺如何。

considering it's been such a critical moment?

考慮到已經到了這樣一個關鍵時刻？

- (sighs) The biggest threat that I'm trying to figure out

- (嘆氣)我試圖弄清楚的最大威脅是

how to deal with now is that we're starting to get burn out.

現在如何處理的問題是，我們開始有了倦怠感。

You know, it's starting to fall out of the new cycle

你知道，它開始從新的週期中掉下來了

but the need isn't going away.

但這種需求並沒有消失。

- This is not gonna do as well

- 這不會做得那麼好

as a commercially available ventilator

作為市售的呼吸機

but it's gonna do a heck of a lot better than nothing.

但它會比什麼都不做要好得多。

And that's really, unfortunately,

而這確實是，不幸的。

the situation we might be in.

我們可能遇到的情況。

Even if there's a chance

即使有機會

that they're not gonna be as effective,

他們不會那麼有效。

or that they're gonna fail,

或者說，他們會失敗。

that's still a heck of a lot better

這仍然是一個很大的進步。

than not having that at all.

比起完全沒有這種情況。

- My son's a doctor, a resident.

- 我兒子是個醫生，是個住院醫生。

I won't say where he's at but,

我不會說他在哪裡，但是。

let's just leave it at that.

就這樣算了吧。

- [Interviewer] Okay, well I hope your son's okay.

- [採訪者]好吧，我希望你的兒子沒事。

- He's fine so far,

- 到目前為止，他很好。

but he's had no personal protective gear for 10 days.

但他已經有10天沒有使用個人防護裝備了。

- [Interviewer] Are you serious?

- [採訪者]你是認真的嗎？

- Needless to say I'm sending him some,

- 不用說，我也會給他寄一些。

right, so. - Oh, good.

對，所以。- 哦，好。

- What do you think these efforts say

- 你認為這些努力說明了什麼

about the 3D printing scene more generally?

關於更普遍的3D打印場景？

It's unprecedented what's happening right now.

現在發生的事情是史無前例的。

- Well I think it's amazing.

- 嗯，我認為這很了不起。

I think it's the informal, kind of bottom-up,

我想這是非正式的，有點自下而上的意思。

DIY culture of makers, and engineers, and designers,

製造者、工程師和設計師的DIY文化。

and architects, that through 3D printing itself

和建築師們，通過3D打印本身

has allowed this to really happen.

允許這種情況真正發生。

- It's like we were built for this.

- 就像我們是為這個而生的。

We have this global network of very smart people

我們有這個由非常聰明的人組成的全球網絡

who like to make things and find solutions for things

喜歡製造東西和尋找解決方案的人

and the machines that they have to make these things

以及他們用來製造這些東西的機器

are in their garages or in their maker spaces.

在他們的車庫裡或在他們的創客空間裡。

- Peoples homes and peoples schools and peoples libraries.

- 人民的家、人民的學校和人民的圖書館。

3D printers scattered everywhere.

3D打印機散落在各處。

- [Alan] And then when leveraged in mass like this,

- [Alan]然後當像這樣大規模地利用。

it can actually be up a manufacturing pool.

它實際上可以成為一個製造池。

- Probably wake people up a little bit

- 可能會讓人們稍微清醒一點

to what you can do with 3D

你可以用3D做什麼

and kind of take advantage of that.

並利用這種優勢。

- Like after this pandemic is over,

- 比如在這場大流行病結束後。

3D printing itself has really staked a claim in the future.

3D打印本身確實已經在未來奠定了地位。

- At some point does it make sense to level up

- 在某些時候，提升水準是否有意義？

to a larger scale manufacturing?

到更大規模的製造？

What does that look like?

這看起來像什麼呢？

- We all, all of us that are doing this,

- 我們所有人，我們所有正在做這件事的人。

are fully aware that 3D printing these visors

我們完全知道，3D打印這些遮陽板

is not the most efficient way to make them.

並不是最有效的製作方法。

- You have things like injection molded.

- 你有像注射成型的東西。

Machines that can push plastic into a mold

可以將塑膠推入模具的機器

and make thousands in an hour.

並在一小時內賺取數千美元。

- So, this is where we started

- 是以，這就是我們開始的地方

and now we're injection molding now too

現在我們也在注射成型。

'cause this takes about 2 hours to print a set for one.

因為這需要大約2個小時的時間來打印一個人的套裝。

These we can do two every 20 seconds.

這些我們可以每20秒做兩次。

- Injection molding lines,

- 注塑成型生產線。

you could probably make parts quicker and more reliably

你可能可以更快、更可靠地製造零件

but then you also would be down for weeks

但這樣你也會癱瘓數週之久

building tooling for that.

構建這方面的工具。

- Here's the need

- 這裡需要的是

and here's where mass production can begin.

而這裡是可以開始大規模生產的地方。

There's that gap and so 3D printing fills in that gap.

有這樣的差距，所以3D打印填補了這個空白。

- [Interviewer] I'd love to know what you think

- [採訪者]我很想知道你的想法

is next for 3D printing and what's next for you?

3D打印的下一步是什麼，你的下一步是什麼？

- People are reaching out,

- 人們正在伸出援助之手。

wanting to help find low-cost printers

希望幫助尋找低成本的打印機

that can be used at home.

可以在家裡使用的。

It certainly helps with the helplessness

這當然有助於解決無助的問題

that many of us were feeling

我們中的許多人都感到

in terms of wanting to contribute and try and do something.

在想要做出貢獻和嘗試做一些事情方面。

- The world's changing in front of us too

- 世界在我們面前也在變化

and I'm not sure how it's gonna look

而我不確定它將會是什麼樣子的

when we come out of this but it'll be different.

當我們走出來的時候，它將會是不同的。

- You know, everybody asks me like what my goal is

- 你知道，每個人都問我，我的目標是什麼？

and I don't even know.

而我甚至不知道。

This is battlefield medicine right now

這就是現在的戰場醫學

so we're doing the best we can with what we have.

是以，我們正在盡最大努力利用我們所擁有的資源。

What we're trying to do is supply something,

我們所要做的是提供一些東西。

then supply something better, and then repeat.

然後提供更好的東西，然後再重複。

(gentle upbeat music)

(輕柔歡快的音樂)

- Hey, so if you have a 3D printer

- 嘿，所以如果你有一臺3D打印機

and you want to get involved,

而你想參與其中。

a good place to start is your own community.

一個好的開始是你自己的社區。

Look for other people doing the same thing

尋找其他做同樣事情的人

and for organizations in need.

併為有需要的組織提供服務。

We also have links below to some of the designs you saw

我們還在下面提供了你看到的一些設計的鏈接

in the video so check those out and thanks for watching.

在視頻中，請查看這些內容，並感謝您的觀看。