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May - Final Testing will commence, fine tuning, and demonstrating at C-CAT or Plaza or at a festival.
May - Final Testing will commence, fine tuning, and demonstrating at C-CAT or Plaza or at a festival.
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Background

I would like to see a solar cooker built that would employ some improvements to the general parabolic dish plan. Hopefully this could be employed as an educational device.

Description of Opportunity

With the opportunity to work with Bart Orlando this project could use innovative design and have the benefit of years of experience. It will preferably be built from salvaged materials as to not contribute to consumption. It must be easily portable, efficient and reliably focused so that demonstrations can be done with ease in different locations.

Criteria

Time – has to be finished before end of spring 08 semester.

Budget – project must be within provided budget.

Durability – must be able to withstand minor abuse and neglect.

Portability - should either be lightweight or have some sort of wheel attachment so that one person could move it without toil, perhaps by towing it behind a bike.

Design - should incorporate new improvements or previously not thought of innovations to the solar cooker plan.

Synergy/Integration - ideally it will be a multi functional device, capable of easily purifying water as well as cooking food, and perhaps more, as brainstorming will allow.

Materials - Materials should be found or salvaged for demonstration purposes so that it can be shown that this is a post-manufacture fabrication.

Wheels - could maybe use parabolic stadium light casings as detachable wheels that could also be used as separate cooking units.

Ease of use - if multiple parts are to be used, then they should employ intuitive design, and not require the use of tools for operation.

More Details

The project will likely involve converting papasan or wicker chairs into dual purpose solar cooking devices/furniture.

Proposed time line

February - Lots of research and brainstorming. Looking at materials and design features. World of potential.

March - Will start to finalize design and collect materials and by first or second week. Will finalize design and commence construction by third week.

April - Will construct project, making adjustments as the universe dictates. Will spend the month adjusting and perfecting design.

May - Final Testing will commence, fine tuning, and demonstrating at C-CAT or Plaza or at a festival.

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