Anglia Ruskin University creating the Power Saving Kettle

Anglia Ruskin University will turn Year 3 Pupil Lucas’ Power Saving Kettle into a reality with their prototype as part of a continued partnership between Anglia Ruskin University and Primary Engineer.

Anglia Ruskin University are one of our University Prototyping Partners for East England as part of our annual engineering competition which asks pupils aged 3-19 ‘If you were an engineer what would you do?’ and encourages pupils come up with creative solutions to real-world problems.

Anglia Ruskin University have selected his design to turn into a prototype over the 2023/2024 academic year which will be unveiled at the next East England Awards Ceremony and Public Exhibition during the Summer term.

They chose this design because this idea we all use kettles on a daily basis whether that’s a hot drink, boiling water for cooking or a hot water bottle. The team at Anglia Ruskin University had spoken to lots of people who said very similar things about overfilling kettles and the waste of electricity.

Beginning the prototype

A group of students and the technical staff at Anglia Ruskin University have developed this prototype to show that this is definitely a viable and usable invention.

The circuit design and programming were undertaken by one of their technical staff. The physical appearance along with original CAD modelling was inspired by the initial design produced as part of the competition and then was developed by a final year undergraduate student.

The 3D model was then resized to fit by another of their Mechanical Engineering students and another member of the technical staff then printed the final kettle base on one of their higher end 3D printers.

The prototype can be updated to acknowledge the ongoing increases in energy cost to make sure that it is always up-to-date and attentive to our kettle overfilling habits.

We can’t wait for the next update on this prototype!