
Project Matchbox 273.15
A nature–machine interface that processes agricultural waste into threads
For Indian farmers, the world's largest producers of rice straw, who burn rice straw due to a lack of viable economic alternatives causing severe seasonal air pollution and making New Delhi the most polluted city in the world, PROJECT MATCHBOX 273.15 is a desktop spinning device that converts cellulose extracted from rice straw into versatile threads. Unlike centralized textile factories and industrial spinning machinery, which are inaccessible to individual farmers due to high costs, complexity, and scale, this product economically empowers farmers and encourages decentralized production resonating with the principles of Industry 4.0.

Nainil Patel



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Nainil Patel
Nainil Patel is an Adaptive "Designeer" (designer + engineer) who responds to constraints by switching between design and engineering. He believes in arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a defined purpose(s) by practising to make the best out of what is available.