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NYU MakerSpace Covid-19: PAPR and Ventilator Parts

Reverse Engineering Parts Needed for the Medical Covid-19 Response Written by Victoria Bill, NYU Tandon MakerSpace Director PAPR Clips The need: Last week, NYU Langone medical staff and faculty in the Clinical Engineering department reached out to the MakerSpace through the NYU Covid-19 Task Force about designing replacement parts for powered air purifying respirators (PAPRs). Medical staff wear these hoods as protective devices.  There is a clip that holds a facemask in place that can…

GreenHouse: Fall 2017 in Review

It’s been a little quiet from the GreenHouse team this semester, but fear not! We have been busy cooking up ideas! We’ve had an action-packed semester with over 20 workshops and events (!!!) ranging from hacking Amazon Alexa to talks about the importance of mushrooms. I’m here to share a little about the highlights from the semester. It all started on October 5. Simon and Ashley partnered with Major League Hacking to help students learn about Alexa…

Healthcare VC Pitchfest on Thursday, 6pm @ the Leslie eLab

  Want to understand how VC assess early stage life sciences or healthcare startups or to be in the know about the next BIG IDEA developed by students and faculties at NYU? Join us at the VC Pitchfest @ the Leslie eLab. 4 NYU startups will be pitching to vie for best pitch.   Date: Thursday, Nov 2nd Time: 6:15 pm – networking, refreshments will be served, 6:30 pm – startup pitches Location: Leslie eLab, 16 Washington Square   Come…

Announcing the Ideation Series by the GreenHouse at MakerSpace

Are you struggling to come up with new ideas or find problems to solve? These workshops will teach you hands-on skills for creative problem solving using an ideation framework and continue with visual thinking workshops focusing on sketching and prototyping. This series of workshops will help lay the groundwork for you to participate and be successful in these upcoming programs at NYU:  J-Term Startup Sprint. Application deadline: November 20, 2017. Prototyping Fund. Application deadline: TBA…

Project Of The Week: SILVANA

           This week’s project features SILVANA!: A vertical take-off and landing aircraft. Team members Sam Zhao, Derrick Yuen, Michael Diaz, Michael Barnes, Safwat Hoque, and Carmine Del Priore are prototyping the aircraft for their senior design project. The group has been funded 1500 dollars by the Mechanical Engineering department (Note:This is the typical fund allocated to senior design projects by this department). The project spans the length of two semesters and…
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