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D-Lab

D-Lab. Fall 2004. IAP Trip Details. Time commitment… 3 - 28 January Monetary commitment… Living expenses Visa and passport fees Personal commitment… YES!!. Intermediate Technology. Indigenous Technology. Takes about 1 - 3 hours every day to grind grain for their families

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D-Lab

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  1. D-Lab Fall 2004

  2. IAP Trip Details • Time commitment… • 3 - 28 January • Monetary commitment… • Living expenses • Visa and passport fees • Personal commitment… • YES!!

  3. Intermediate Technology

  4. Indigenous Technology • Takes about 1 - 3 hours every day to grind grain for their families • Costs less than $5 for equipment

  5. Industrialized Technology • Takes about 10 seconds to grind the grain for a family for one day • Costs abut $8,000

  6. Intermediate Technology • Takes about 1 - 3 minutes to grind the grain for a family for one day • Costs abut $500

  7. Industrial Technology • Produces about 10,000 bricks per day • Costs abut $23,000

  8. Intermediate Technology • Produces about 500 bricks per day • Costs abut $375

  9. Indigenous Technology

  10. Industrialized Technology

  11. Intermediate Technology

  12. Appropriate Technology

  13. What are appropriate technologies? The traditional definition: • low in capitol costs • uses local materials as much as possible • creates jobs • small scale • can be understood, maintained and repaired locally • uses decentralized, renewable energy sources • does not involve patents, royalties etc.

  14. The Sari Cloth Filter

  15. The Pot-in-Pot

  16. Whirlwind Wheelchairs

  17. Light Up the World: Solid State Lights

  18. Grameen Phone

  19. A Guiding Principle for AT • Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day • Teach a man to fish, and he eats for a life time... unless there’s no river nearby!!

  20. Fuel from the Fields Project: Charcoal Briquettes

  21. Improvements to Press • Original Design • $100 • Requires 3 people to operate • Improvements • Bracing makes press safer and easier to use • Improved process to eject briquettes • Throughput increased to 2 briquettes/minute

  22. Guiding Principles for D-Lab • Identify functional requirements • Encourage participatory development • Value indigenous knowledge • Promote local innovation • Strive for sustainability

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