COVID-19 is disproportionately affecting the Native American communities across the United States. The Arizona Health Department has reported that Native Americans made up over 16% of the state’s coronavirus deaths,… Read More »Mask Making – The Fight Against COVID-19 in Native American Communities
In observance of Juneteenth, our OSMS team will be taking the day off. This will be a day for our employees and teammates to educate and connect on the significance… Read More »The 3D printed Elephant in The Room
We are incredibly excited to announce an entirely-new website for Open Source Medical Supplies at www.opensourcemedicalsupplies.org! The site features: A supply category library that makes the 36 supply categories in… Read More »New Open Source Medical Supplies Website!
Meet the Burnett Secondary High school student that has printed and distributed over 2000 supplies to communities at the epicenter of medical supplies shortages in the North American region. What… Read More »Sean Uy – The BC teen making PPE
As the effects of COVID19 related medical supplies shortages became more apparent in his community. Orlando based maker, Ian Cole and his wife Candy, immediately deployed their resources to help.
At the beginning of the year, internal medicine physician and former Congressional candidate Kyle Horton didn’t know that she’d be learning a new skill. While initial attempts at sewing broke… Read More »The OSMS Cape Fear Story
As of today (May 19, 2020), Lithuania has had 59 deaths from COVID-19, out of 1,547 reported cases. A graph of reported cases shows a steady decline. Furthermore, all hospitals… Read More »Lithuania’s Story: The Power of Open Source
And now for a much-delayed tally from last week – the open source community has now produced over 12 MILLION UNITS of medical supplies all over the globe! Production has… Read More »The Weekly Count: 12 Million Units of Medical Supplies!
We must stand together in fighting systemic racism and injustice everywhere, across all sectors and systems, particularly those that have historically treated people of color unfairly. This is not our… Read More »Black Lives Matter
All of our Virtually Maker Faire panels and presentations are now up on YouTube! Doing it Yourself, Together: Orchestrating Grassroots Movements – Hear Open Source Medical Supplies’ co-executive director Molly… Read More »Virtually Maker Faire Panels on YouTube