ESW Project - Strawboard Machine

Introduction

Strawboard is a solid, semistructural product made from straw or hay. One company selling a commercial product is Stramit -

The solid straw board or block is made by heating the straw (reportedly to 240F by Stramit) and compressing. See video at Stramit page.

For OSE purposes, we can consider a machine like above. It would be interesting to start with a prototype where we make straw bricks. To do this, we could take our existing machine, add a heater element to the compression chamber, and document the results.