Tennessee Tech University is responding to the call to fight COVID-19 with 3D printing. The university is using the printers to make hundreds of headbands for facemasks to meet a need for medical workers.

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University officials got the call Saturday morning to work with the state and within only a few hours they were able to start production on the mask. “It feels fantastic and it really just feels like another day on the job for me,” student Hunter Hinshaw told News 2. He is able to operate one of the labs with 6 machines on his own. Each machine is making 4 headbands at a time. “As of now, this space alone has produced 48 and I know our total count for campus as a whole is well over 100,” he explained. It’s not your typical spring break for Tennessee Tech students like Hinshaw. […]

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