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Maker Faire Bay Area 2008
Engineers Without Borders: Appropriate Technology Pavilion
The Appropriate Technology Design Team is a group of Bay Area engineering professionals developing appropriate and sustainable design solutions for organizations working in disadvantaged communities. We strive to empower communities to help themselves by providing tools that facilitate economic development and provide basic needs, local education, training and entrepreneurial opportunities.
Web site: http://www.ewb-sfp.org/projects/ATDT
Topic(s): Engineering
Tags: appropriate+technology sustainable+engineering renewable+energy
About the Maker(s)
Catapult Design
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Catapult Design is a not-for-profit design consultancy that provides engineering and implementation support to organizations in need of technologies capable of igniting social change. We are engineers, designers, implementers, and educators – we design products, introduce technologies, and foster trends that are appropriate, self-sustaining, environmentally friendly, socially responsible and culturally sensitive.
http://www.catapultdesign.org
CerviScope
Dr. David Walmer
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Theo Tam
The cerviScope is a portable colposcope. This is a medical device designed for use in low-resource settings based on requirements taken from gynecologists around the world. The cerviScope detects HPV lesions on the cervix with the goal of preventing cervical cancer for women in the developing world.
Cosmos Ignite Innovations: Solar LED lighting
Sally Madsen
Millions of homes in India and around the world are left to the mercy of dim light from dangerous, polluting and expensive-to-use kerosene oil lamps. The growing energy crisis heralds the urgent need for novel solutions. Can Disruptive Technology help cut through the mire of age old problems? Can Renewable Energy light a path to a new dawn? Can we deliver this through a Sustainable Corporate Venture? We’ve designed the MightyLight, a solar-powered LED light which replaces kerosene lanterns.
LaserFinger
Chris Tacklind
LaserFinger is a project of the Palo Alto High School Robotics/InvenTeam. Its aim is to create an affordable assistive technology while engaging students across the Bay Area.
Whoopie Water Storage
Anurupa Rao
Imagine you are a farmer in Myanmar. You irrigate your quarter acre plot using two metal watering cans, carried across your back. It takes you 6 hours just to make 140 round trips between your crops and water source, in 100 degree heat. InfiniCan is a simple $4, raised water storage device that uses 5 ft of energy potential to channel water through a hose and spout. To water your crops, you now carry just the spout. The impact? Your productivity and hence income increase by 25%, and your back is saved from carrying 4,000 lbs of water, each day, everyday.
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