As hospitals prepare to take in more patients with the coronavirus, they are in acute need of life-saving equipment: ventilators that help patients breathe, face masks and protective gear.

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The problem is, there aren’t enough of them. And there’s not enough manufacturing capacity to easily hike up production. This is where the do-it-yourself (DIY) community in Spain comes in: Under the name Coronavirus Makers , over the last few weeks, thousands of citizens have been connecting online to fight against the shortage of life-saving equipment.

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From their living rooms and basements, they tinker with ideas and designs, share them, build prototypes and print them out with 3-D printers. Ashoka Fellow David Cuartielles and César García, both innovators in the open source space, are helping to curate the Coronavirus Makers Forum that they set up […]

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