open source wash machine
DESCRIPTION
The open source washing machine project aims to rethink the way we wash clothes around the world, in accordance with economical, sociological, cultural and environemental aspects. Most of the people in this planet, mostly women, wash clothes by hand in harsh conditions related to poverty, lack of sanitation, water or energy.TRANSCRIPT
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Jean-Noël Montagnéfrom craslab.org
OPEN SOURCE WASHING MACHINE PROJECT
a Bricolabs projecthttp://www.bricolabs.net
TWEAK.ie festival
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Bricolabs network• A distributed network for global and local development of
open source generic infrastructures incrementally developed by communities.
• A global platform to investigate the new loop of open content, software and hardware for community applications, bringing people together with alternative technologies and distributed connectivity, unlike the dominant focus of IT industry on security, surveillance and monopoly of information and infrastructures.
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Open source hardware ?
• no patents but an open source licence on the design
• open source software in programmable electronic components
• possibility to DIY, modify, share, copy, distribute, sell the products freely.
• examples: Freeduino, OScar, RepRap, Monome etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_hardware
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Context of the washing machine project ?
• most people (mostly women) on the planet washes clothes by hand.
• It's a huge amount of time
• hard work ( for the back, the hands, the feet in cold/hot water)
• toxic chemicals for washing
• dirty water & pollution problems
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Magdalene Laundry in Ireland
some years ago in Europe
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folkloric event in an open air museum, Europe
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TOGO
would they prefer to play games ?
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Ecuador
or going to school ?
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Mozambique
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Mozambique
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China
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China
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China
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Egypt
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Guatemala
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Haïti
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Irak
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India
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India
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Laos
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Madagascar
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Mali
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South Africa
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San Domingo
at home
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Romania
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Senegallaundry in
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IndiaLaundry in
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Indialaundry in
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Indialaundry in
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Indiacarrying heavy wet clothes home
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Honduras
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What did our grand-mothers say in the fifties, when electricity or washing machines came ?
-the arrival of washing machines was a revolution in my body. No more pain.
-the arrival of washing machines was a revolution in my week programm. No more time wasted.
-the arrival of washing machines was a revolution in my psychology. Cleaning the piss, shit, dirt and sweat of others
is not a vocation.
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Is it possible that every family in the world soon possesses a washing machine, western style ?
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NO WAY
-Problem of water
-Problem of electricity
-Problem of money
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A recent example in a urban area:
3 adults and 4 children family in Dakar, Senegal
- washing by hand 3 times a week/ running water with low pressure and many interruptions/ electricity with many interruptions during the day.- the mother is washing/drying from 9 AM to 4 PM - heating big water tanks is dangerous for children running around- pays sometimes a worker ( woman ) when she is too busy or too tired.
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Can we find new technologies or new concepts for washing clothes ?
Can we create technological & sociological concepts adapted to the different contexts ?
yes
hard work and long term project...but possible in a network organisation
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-a panel of technologies
-a panel of materials for the different technologies
-a panel of DIY and ecological detergents
-a panel of people/knowledge to build prototypes (everywhere) and
test them into the adapted contexts
-a panel of methods for DIY /dissemination workshops
-a panel of people to give the first dissemination workshops
the open source washing machine project aims to define
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There could be a hundred different designs, each design adapted to the different places
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Individual or collective washing machines ?
Brainstorming
both could be explored, collective, first.
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-recycling washing machine parts + freeduino board as programmer
-recycling and building with vehicles parts (cars, bikes)
-building in wood and bamboo
-recycling plastic parts
-other materials ?
About materials :
Technology
Materials & technologies adapted to each context
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-using wind power, -water power, -solar power, -animal power, -human power...?
About energy:
energy for mecanics, energy for heating water
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-rotating systems ? -vibrating and sonic systems ?-shocking systems ?-brushing systems ?-bubbling systems ?
Other ideas-uv light systems ?-bacterials systems ?... ?
agitating water+detergents+clothes...Washing technology:
How to motivate ingeneering/design/biology schools to work on some new concepts ?
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-using horizontal rotations ? -vertical or oblique rotations ?-helicoidal systems ?-six-sided tanks easier to build
About rotating systems western style :
Technology
(not very adapted to poor contexts)
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Vibration systems
very easy and cheap to create with windmills, watermills...
an example of very simple design:
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all could be in wood, except the axis here
Desequilibrated DIY windmill ( easy...!), to create vibrations
Closed tank with clothes and detergentswith a metallic tank, the friction can also create free heat to warm the water ...!!
open source design by JNM
Transmission of vibration through this branch
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DIY detergents :
Materials
-how to build soaps and detergents with natural products, plants and trees.
-how to grow soap plants and trees
-how to manage, clean and recycle water
to do in the project: -global inventory of soap plants-bibliography on the subject
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The open source washing machine project needs a network of different competences, as well as
simple observers, linked all over the world by the exchange of knowledge on the web.
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Jean-Noël Montagné http://www.craslab.org
Rob van Kranenburg http://www.bricolabs.net
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