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Thanks to everyone who followed the SpinCycle development process on here over the three week period I spent at Gripple. I will be continuing to work closley with the I&I team but if you would like to keep up to date with the latest developments I will now be bloging on the new SpinCycle Project [...]
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So…today was my last day of a 3 week – create a working cycle powered – transportable – washing machine device for the developing world challenge. I felt like this was an ambitious task from the start but I had no idea when I started this process how much I would actually achieve in the time frame. [...]
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This week has been a busy but very productive one. On Monday night I decided to change the design before meeting the welder in the morning to build the working prototype. This isn’t recommended however, I seem to have pulled it off as on Tuesday I helped Fred (Ashurst’s welders and fabricators) build the frame and piece it all [...]
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Throughout my first week working with Gripple and the ideas and innovation team I’ve been developing a design for the first working prototype, in order to prove the concept of being able to cycle from A to B and transport a device which allows you to effectively and efficiently wash clothes, using pedal power, with [...]
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Today saw a very important stage in the SpinCycle development process. I met with a welder and fabricator and an in house cycling fanatic to discuss how the initial-recycled bike-SpinCycle-working prototype could be made. One of the biggest developments is that the tricycle is now going to be a quad bike! it will still be pedal powered [...]
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A quick recap – for those of you that are new to the SpinCycle story I’ll speedily fill you in… After washing around 30 loads of childrens clothes at an orphanage in Burundi (Central Africa) last year, I was inspired to design a product which prevented people from having to wash clothes by hand in the developing world. I had a [...]
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