A well-known fact is that current human beings are facing increasingly serious water problems. Today, nearly 800 million people around the world do not have clean drinking water, and between 60 and 80,000 people die every year from water-borne diseases. A few days ago, 100 eco-friendly hackers gathered in an old castle in western Paris, France, to host an event called POC21. During the event, hackers created a series of cool ones to help solve human water resources. Difficult project. The Faircap project is one of them.
Faircap's goal is to provide clean drinking water with its open source 3D printing water filter. The water filter is inexpensive to manufacture and its design files are open source, available for free download and can be screwed onto the spout of a standard PET kettle. Whether it is easy to make or use, of course, you have to have a 3D printer .
It is understood that the initiator and leader of the project is Mauricio Cordova, a graduate student in economics from Peru. Once he went to the Amazon rainforest, he saw a large amount of industrial and chemical waste polluting the environment. “I realized that no matter where you are on the planet, you will feel the pollution caused by industry and human activities to the rivers and lakes,†Cordova said.
Faircap 3D printing water filters have undergone extensive testing to filter out particulates, chemicals, bacteria and viruses in the dirtiest water. To make it, you need to prepare just a 3D printer, food grade and FDA approved PET wire, download a free STL file (click to download), homemade filter charcoal, cotton swabs and empty plastic bottles.
In fact, Faircap is very easy to make. You only need to print out the outer shell parts of the water filter in 3D, and then use the ordinary bonfire charcoal and salt to make your own activated carbon filter (click here for the production method). To kill pathogens in the water, Faircap proposes two different methods: either relying on off-the-shelf ultrafiltration cartridges to remove viruses and bacteria; or exposing the filtered water to sunlight for several hours to kill the bacteria by sunlight. However, there is a problem in the middle that the disinfection effect by light may not be stable; while the ultrafiltration technology is more stable and reliable, it is not available anywhere.
In order to enable this project to benefit more people in the absence of clean drinking water, Faircap also launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds to mass-produce this simple water filtration device for them. In the long term, the Faircap project hopes to offer a variety of different models of 3D printing filters that filter contaminated water from faucets, wells, rivers, lakes and even ponds while keeping costs around $1.
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