RoboLaundry

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Living a self-sustaining lifestyle off grid in the country requires a good amount of DIY ingenuity, along with careful consideration of power usage. Obviously, a clothes dryer is not something we would have out here considering it is one of the most power hungry beasts as far as appliances are concerned. Our goal is to be completely off-grid someday.

Currently, we use an outdoor clothesline, and although it is powered by free sun energy, it’s somewhat small for our needs and requires a hike up and down 15 stairs with several heavy laundry baskets. Yeah, when you work the land, you go through a lot of clothes! DIYers do not settle for off the shelf solutions that often fall short of expectations, so I decided to dig into my scrap pile and create the ultimate laundry drying solution for our needs.

Being able to hang laundry from the top of the stairs was the first goal which would require a long line between some type of pulley system. That’s pretty much standard for our country living. Since I like a challenge, I decided to take the concept a lot further and make it automated.

The Robo Laundry Pole will still use a cable between pulleys, but it will be driven by an old powerchair motor that’s powered by a 12 volt battery charged by the sun. This way, the line can be driven like a conveyor belt in either direction when hanging or collecting bulky laundry. The powerchair motor also includes a plastic wheel, so it should be compatible with standard clothesline cable.

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