After washing around 30 loads of children’s clothes at an orphanage in Burundi (Central Africa) in 2010, I was inspired to design a product which prevented people from having to wash clothes by hand in the developing world.
I had a self directed project as part of my Product Design degree at Sheffield Hallam, and decided to design a cycle powered washing machine. This was designed to be run as a micro enterprise in the developing world.
The SpinCycle product was designed with a clothes washing arrangement on the back of a tricycle, a belt driven wash drum and a grater on the top to grate soap into the wash water.
After completing a 3 week placement at Gripple’s Ideas and Innovation incubator the product received a serious face lift and a working prototype was made to prove the concept.
I now aim to refine the design and build a prototype to take out to a developing nation (which is yet to be selected) in order to test the concept.
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