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Revision as of 13:38, 25 April 2011
James Brown MEng FRSA
- James@James-Elliot.co.uk
- [james-elliot.co.uk]
- [linkedin]
- [flickr]
- [@JamesElliot]
Bio
- Peripatetic social entrepreneur, appropriate technology engineer with a passion for developing new things and ways of doing that improve lives
- Founding director of www.midomo.co.uk Red Button Design
Background/Experience/Interests
- Product design
- Mechanical engineering
- Appropriate technology
- Social enterprise (Product R&D, Finance, Project management)
- International development (Ran a 5 month project in Sierra Leone)
- Water and sanitation engineering
- Disaster response (Shelter provision, training and policy)
- Photography
Currently working on
- Arduino based field trial testing kit for water purification system (see Midomo test kit)
Future plans
- Nanode based remote sensors & pachube
- Solar (non-pv) powered irrigation system
- Low cost/power cold-chain logistics refrigeration
- Water quality testing/lab in a box
- Open-source shelter module and infrastructure for displaced communities
Interested in exploring
- Crowd-sourced data mining/emergent intelligence
- Rapid prototyping/manufacture
- Community resilience/open governance
- Green tech/sustainable living/permaculture
- Digital appropriate technology
- Physical computing languages
- Film making
- French
- Bushcraft/Survival