In the first week of lab we established our group and chose our project. The project we chose to engineer is a device that will be able to dry clothes in the Bioko Island region of Equatorial New Guinea. The client is Professor Gallagher and the Bioko Biodiversity Protection Program. The problem is that it is so humid and damp in this region that clothes don't dry well which leads to discomfort and rashes caused by mango flies. We are looking to develop a way of drying the clothing without using electricity. Some ideas we had were to create a way to squeeze the liquid out of the clothing or to create friction and heat that will dry the clothing. Another idea was to use or design a solar oven to dry the clothes. The design has to be simple so it can be implemented in the remote camps. So far we are just in the brainstorming process of possible designs to dry the clothes. We also plan to research possible devices that are used in other parts of the world to dry clothing and possibly implement some of their design proponents into ours. Our goal is to narrow down our ideas step by step and to design a prototype.
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| Picture 1 - A rain forest with similar environmental conditions to Bioko Island. |
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Picture 2 - The location of Bioko Island is shown by the arrow.
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Well there's one typo in here. In the middle of the paragraph, the word "our" is used incorrectly I think. Proofread that.
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