Hi, I’m Mark, An Industrial Design Engineering student.
Currently, I’m working on my graduation project, the design of an Open-source plastic plate press for bottom-up recycling in low resource areas.
I’m planning on finishing v1 of my design before the end om May, this year, but a lot has to be done still.
in a few weeks I’ll start the real design work, and around the end of march I’ll start building a prototype.
But first I need to find out what people expect from such a machine, this is where your help comes in. If you are someone that would like to recycle plastic waste through use of a plate press, please help me and tell me what I need to know. To make it easy I made an online survey: https://mark171.typeform.com/to/yrgyP5
I’ll keep you posted on the results, developments and creations in future posts.
25/01/2018 at 12:23: Up til now I started collecting and small-scale experimentation with a panini iron.
07/03/2018 at 11:11: I’ve done a range of experiments, Gathered survey results from around the world, set a goal and now I’m doing actual design work. scroll further down this Topic to see what I’ve shared so far and feel free to comment, all help is very welcome.
03/12/2018 at 18:42:
since today, all of my documentation is publically available here
I did this project for and together with the MMID Foundation so make sure to attribute to them and me if you do any publications, as it says in the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
This nicely rounds off this project and since I am now working on the sheet-press at V4, still sponsored by the MMID Foundation, I’ve started a new Topic to keep you posted on all developments.