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Year
2025
Type
Social Design
INFO
A harvesting tool designed to make seaweed farming safer, faster, and more accessible for small-scale farmers.

Developed through interviews with seaweed farmers in Connecticut and Alaska, it replaces repetitive knife-cutting with a single pulling motion along the grow line, reducing strain, injury risk, and harvest time.

Made from marine-grade stainless steel with simple, manufacturable components, the tool is designed to be durable, affordable, and easy to attach, remove, and maintain.
Materials
Stainless
3D Resin
ScrewS/BoltS
Spring
rope
tools & Practices
3d Printing
Bending
WELDING
Metalwork
3D CAD
Process