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Tips and tools for rapid prototyping
Boards studded with the sliced halves of ping pong balls lean…
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The unexpected incubators of appropriate technology
Maker Faires, Burning Man and even last year’s Occupy Wall Street…
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New peer-reviewed journal fills a gap in humanitarian…
One of the wishes we’ve heard from experts in humanitarian design…
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A pocket guide to plugging in off the…
A surge in new power supplies presents an interesting challenge: What…
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Ten medical devices for off-grid healthcare
Power is scarce at medical centers in some of the world’s…
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Empowering micro-finance institutions in Togo with solar
KPALIMÉ, TOGO – Like most West African nations, grid power, if…
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Solar textiles: An interview with Sheila Kennedy
The head of a program that is equipping off-grid communities with solar…
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Portable Light’s solar textiles generate mobile power off…
Like most good ideas, making solar power wearable is a solution…
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ReadySet: One company’s bid to rally hardware makers
Last year our news blog left off with a ReadySet cliffhanger.…
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Solar Fire’s beautiful concentrators: An open source secret
Production stopped at a small solar concentrator manufacturing facility in Burkina…