1 Introduction
The rapid spread of COVID‐19 is placing strain on global supply chains (López‐Gómez et al., 2020). Widespread disruption has resulted in shortages of critical items, including Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) (e.g. face masks), clinical equipment (e.g. ventilators) and diagnostics (e.g. nasal swabs) (Chagas et al., 2020). The failure of traditional industry to meet the demand for critical items has seen an unprecedented response from the maker community (Pearce, 2020). These informal networks of innovators are cooperating to produce urgently needed items for COVID‐19 (Corsini et al., 2020b).
Although this is not the first time that makers and makerspaces have played a role in crisis response (Corsini et al., 2019; Corsini and Moultrie, 2019, 2020), this is the first time that the maker community is responding…
