Thanks to his 3D printer, Roméo, a Parisian college student, has already produced more than 500 protective visors, which he has offered to several health establishments. He knows their needs thanks to a united platform that connects demanders and manufacturers, he explains on Monday in "It feels good", on Europe1. 

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Romeo has four 3D printers at home. "Mine, one that I got from college, one that a friend lent me, and one that someone gave me." At 14, this Parisian college student makes protective visors himself thanks to his high-tech equipment. Since the start of the coronavirus epidemic, he has already produced more than 500. And he does not intend to stop on such a good path, he affirms at the microphone of Anne Roumanoff, in It does good, on Europe 1. 

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Solidarity platform

These protective visors, he offers them to caregivers in hospitals, clinics and nursing homes who lack sanitary equipment. After contacting a few health establishments on his own, he signed up for the Covid3D.fr solidarity platform, which connects applicants and producers of 3D printed material.

"I offered visors to the hospital near my home after seeing that he asked for them on the platform. Otherwise, it is rather the people who contact me then come to pick them up," he explains. . Romeo has had his precious 3D printer for three years. "At first, my parents didn't want too much ... But now they have changed their minds!"