The hand-held low-cost corn sheller

A hand-held low-cost corn sheller that removes dried corn from the cob in a fraction of the time and effort it takes someone to do the same job with just a knife. The original sheller was brought to MIT by Amy Smith who came across it while doing fieldwork. The D-Lab class has worked on a number of design changes to the sheller and has introduced it into some of the communities they work in.

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