Monthly Archives: April, 2010

Towards ubiquitous public urinals

Written by Mathew on April 22, 2010 — 1 Comment

We got started on waterless urinal development through talking to Carol McCreary of PHLUSH at Recode’s Greywater celebration and revised our plans through discussions with Carol, Jeff, Barbara, and everyone in PHLUSH. I gave a talk on this subject over at Research Club Sunday, 4/10 at the Tribute Gallery. Special thanks to Tribute director Brian [...]

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The Rest Saving The West

Written by Mathew on April 13, 2010 — Leave a Comment

I have a special loathing for “Design for the Third World,” or pretty much any situation where people assume that just because they are well off, they know know something about what it takes to be well off. So I was delighted to see Dx1W, “Third World Designers solving First World Problems”.  Via Bruce Sterling [...]

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New Temperature Monitor

Written by Mathew on April 10, 2010 — Leave a Comment

I’ve re-made the compost temp sensors to conform to our original design of stabbing probes.  I was having difficulty choosing a non-conductive housing for the  probes that could give accurate measurements along its length,  until I remembered that my favorite plastic, polyethylene, is mostly transparent to infrared.  Duh, that’s why I make solar balloons out [...]

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We’re speaking at PSU on January 25th

noon on a Wednesday. Room 296 in the Smith Memorial Student Union (near SW Broadway and SW Harrison). We will speak about the recent history of urban sanitation, and the dual crisises of resource management and aging infrastructure driving the development and deployment of alternatives.  The talk will focus on case studies of alternative systems in the US, China, Germany, Sweden, and Yemen.
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