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We had the chance to participate in —and win— the Fab Island Challenge organised by Fab City during the Bali Fab Fest!

The Fab Island Challenge brought together local and international innovation communities to contribute to a regenerative economy by developing meaningful solutions that could address various challenges faced by communities in Bali. Teams from around the world learned about a number of local initiatives and their specific challenges, and then proposed and designed prototypes of potential solutions - the best of which were then selected to receive seed funding for implementation.

We were part of the Kopernik team, an organisation that finds what works to reduce poverty, by experimenting with potential solutions that address common challenges.

Our challenge focused on the inefficiencies of harvesting and post-harvest processing by smallholder coffee and cocoa farmers in Bali. After 10 days of research and design, we are pleased to announce that the Kopernik challenge and the prototypes we developed have been selected as one of the winners, which means that the initiative can now move on to development and implementation to help address the challenges faced by farmers.

We did participate with our Fermenter mini to the 2022 Hackaday Prize, a global hardware design challenge focused on widespread and impactful innovation and we were one of the top 50 finalists. Our project won the Challenge 04: Climate Resilient Communities Finalist Award.

We invite you to read Arya Voronova’s lovely blogpost and to check out the full documentation on hackaday.io. We are pleased to have shared our project with the world’s largest collaborative hardware development community.

Last month we participated in WikiFactory’s #FromOneToMany challenge and they just announced that we won the functionality prize with our tempeh moulds, woop woop!

We have won a form box machine that will help us to develop our mould series and research new materials by further exploring moulding and casting techniques.

• Announcement video → link
• Winners → link

Good news! We won the Distributed Design Award 2021!

Our project was first selected, among the 12 finalists, in the Adaptable and open-design category and now, after a few weeks of suspense, we have just learned that we won the award for excellence! Woop woop! We’ll receive 2000€ to finance the development of the Domingo Club and our incubator. Long live the Domingo Club!

Thanks Distributed Design!