The WOT is a student organization with a passion for technology and development. We test and design extremely affordable technologies for use in developing countries.
A water pump for €20 and €10 for an irrigation system? We develop it. Join us!
Looking for an internship for the minor Crossing Borders, your final thesis or just to gain experience in a developing country? Contact us!
The WOT will host introduction activities every Wednesday and Thursday this September.You can sign up for these activities using the following google form: Sign up via Google Forms These activities will be organised like our weekly association nights (normally every Wednesday) so we’ll gather at…
This June, the WOT organized its first physical activity in a long time! In light with the start of producing a Mzuzu well-drilling set, Henk Holtslag from SMART introduced enthusiastic WOTters to the Mzuzu drilling method in a 1-day course. With regard to an information…
Since the last post about the new windpump gearbox a lot of progress has been made. In this blog, we will discuss some of the findings during the process. Also, some important changes are made to the design which will be discussed. Starting from the…
The Breurram is a type of waterram pump that was developed by a WOT volunteer in the 90s. There already is an elaborate manual on how it works and how to build one. In addition to this we decided to make an instructional video about…
As WOT members we love making things playing around with all kinds of different tools and materials, since we are not able to collectively do that at our terrain we decided to do it separately. For this reason we organised the Epic challenges every week we…
As a duration test the plastic pump system which is currently tested at the WOT is placed under the Kjito windpump in the second half of 2020. During the last couple of weeks the pump was struggling with pumping water, only delivering during high wind…
At the end of 2020 a group of students from the TU Delft contacted the WOT because of a project they were working on for their minor. They were to work out and implement a system to provide water for a company and a community…
At the beginning of this year several irrigation systems have been tested in the vegetable garden at the WOT. The aim of this project was to find a low cost but efficient method to irrigate crops. Three systems were tested: a bought transpiring hose, a…
During the last working weekend at three and four october progress has been made with the new gearbox design test setup. This new gearbox design has a couple of unique features for windpumps which have a gearbox between the rotor and pumping rod (to slow…
