Project Update 7.21.2017
We have a new prototype that we are eager to test in Niger. We believe our latest prototype resolves the issue of clogging and output speed. Still solar powered, it is a simpler and more compact machine lower energy consumption than the AF2 (the prototype we tested in Niger in [...]
The Ant Farm thresher and Namibia 2015
We learned from the 2014 trip to Niger that the threshers we'd built so far were inadequate for their pearl millet. There was significantly more variation in the panicles than there was in the millet we used for testing in Massachusetts. Left: The pearl millet grown on campus at [...]
Niger 2015 Field Testing
Team members Susan Hanna and Roo Trimble were in Niger from November 3 to 14, 2015, field testing the most recent version of the HIT. They started off the trip accompanied by Nat Bascom, the assistant director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Sorghum and Millet (SMIL). In [...]
Niger 2015 rough cut
This is a rough cut of the images and video from the 2015 Niger trip. Not all of the data has come back, and we're working on some more organized presentations, but this is the version that Roo and Susan have been using to accompany presentations summarizing their experience [...]
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