Installing a rain-water catchment system in Cambodia
Students in John Ochsendorf’s class, 4.472: D-Lab Schools, spent the fall 2010 planning to travel to rural Cambodia to work on school design projects. The class traveled over IAP, and a number of projects were undertaken, from installing new shutters to provide airflow during rainstorms, to building a latrine using rice husk ask (RHA) mixed [...]
An early warning flood system in Honduras
Elizabeth Basha SM ’05, PhD ’10, spent the summer of 2008 leading a team called FloodSafe Honduras that developed an early warning flood system. This automated system has the capability of alerting 10,000 in the Rio Aguan Basin in Honduras to when water levels get dangerously high. The system uses inexpensive radios to transmit information [...]
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 [...]
