Maggy is a small wearable device helping you to maintain social distancing while keeping your privacy. It creates a sound and vibration notification whenever the distance between its users becomes too small. This innovative solution was one of the winners of the EUvsVirus Hackathon organised by the European Commission in April, out of 2.160 participating teams. After the first product announcement, Maggy got overwhelmed with requests. Then, looking for a solution to quickly respond this requirements, Maggy met the Belgian start-up company PrintPlace. Desktop 3D Printers provided by PrintPlace offer a more economical option than their equivalents in the market without sacrificing quality.
Due to state-of-the-art Bluetooth 5.1 and 5.2 chips, Maggy was designed to have distance accuracy. In this way, the device, gives warning through vibration and sound whenever the distance between its users becomes too small and enables to protect social distancing. Maggy, emerged as an innovative solution in the normalization process, was got overwhelmed with requests with its first announcement; more than 45 thousand parts were in demand. The company was in search of a solution to organize limited scale beta tests on the short term and realized that 3D printing technologies respond to their demands.
Maggy especially preferred SLS among 3D Printing technologies
In search of 3D printing technologies, in order to speed up the production process, Maggy especially choosed SLS (Laser Sintering) technology. SLS proved itself on several levels and came to the fore with its various features. Freedom of design and production, smooth surface finish, detailed yet rigid parts, inner geometries are some of the features. Despite all these advantages, mainstream SLS technologies are not always accessible, especially by start-ups, as they are expensive. Maggy, a Belgian start-up, sought a more economical way without sacrificing quality and consequently agreed with PrintPlace.
PrintPlace, also a Belgian start-up, was founded by four engineers who are very passionate about 3D Printing. They explained that the aim was to make this technology accessible by focusing on specific applications and in an affordable yet qualitative way. Offering a more economical option with its smaller Desktop 3D Printer compared to its equivalents in the industry, PrintPlace plays a role in achieving a quality result in many stages by providing personal guidance in the development a product.
To ensure a first-time right production, PrintPlace cooperated with Sinterit. The frontrunner of Desktop SLS technology with its LISA SLS 3D Printer ecosystem; Sinterit took an active role in each step of the production process. Sinterit provided support on optimal LISA Pro build preparation, ideal machine operation, machine maintenance, and post-processing.