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  1. RE: mastodon.social/@inkican/11574

    Tagging for #SolarPunkSunday !

    "A former Dyson engineer is rolling out a revolution for household chores in deprived communities after inventing an off-grid, flat-packable washing machine

    Some five billion people in remote and developing regions still wash their clothes by hand. It’s a task that unfairly burdens women and young girls, who can spend up to 20 hours a week on the chore.

    Enter Navjot Sawhney, who founded the UK-based social enterprise The Washing Machine Project (TWMP) to tackle this, and has now shipped almost 500 of his #handcrank #Divya machines to 13 countries, including Mexico, Ghana, Iraq and the US.

    The Divya washing machine, made up of an outer drum and an inner one which rotates, operates a 30-minute wash cycle where it completes a 5kg load needing only a few minutes of manual turning."

    #ClothesWashing #OffGrid

  2. Printed Axial Generator is Turned By Hand - While desktop 3D printing is an incredible technology, it’s got some pretty clear ... - hackaday.com/2022/10/15/printe #classichacks #generator #handcrank #plastic #axial #gears #tools