DIYers

It’s always amazing for us to see someone courageous sharing the spirit and deciding to put time, energy, effort and money into building a DIY solar oven. This one was built early 2025 in Mexico by Pierre Brun and friends from Quebec with our plans.

As you can see, yummy solar food is being baked!

Sylvain Barbot and volunteers are running this dynamic association based on the island of La Réunion. Their goal is to spread low-tech and solutions supporting sustainability and solar bakery with the BouSol project (Boulangerie Solaire). Together, they built a nice Lytefire DIY stove with a low-tech oven.
→ Visit Ekopratik’s site
→ Visit BouSol’s Facebook page

Founded by Arnaud Crétot and Robin Deloof in 2009, Les Vagabonds de l’énergie is non-profit association based in Normandy. They are pioneers in the field of education on climate change. Nowadays, Clément Bresciani and the volunteers are informing kids in schools and enthusiastic perople during festivals. In 2020, the Vagabonds raised funds to start educational solar baking projects in the region. We have been lending them a Lytefire DIY oven in 2020-2023. They are focused on spreading awareness about degrowth and renewable energies.
→ Visit the site

Kurt Baumann is a crafts-teacher and based on our DIY construction plans he built a Lytefire 4 Stovetop as a project with his students. The project was an ideal choice for the youngsters to develop their skills in metalworks. And finally they prepared a delicious lunch with the Lytefire!

This Lytefire was later on donated to us and we brought it to France, where it finally continued a new life as part of workshops for schoolchildren with Les Vagabonds de l’énergie.
→ More about the schoolclass on our blog

After studying abroad and working in the solar industry in the US, Moutasem Hassan is ready to return to his conflict-ridden home country and promote solar energy for a more independent Palestine.

Moutasem is motivated by the fact that solar energy not only creates jobs and reduces fossil fuel dependence, it also reduces the greenhouse gas emissions and could pose a way out of poverty. “I’m especially excited about this technology because it can be built locally, so it will not be limited by the harsh import duties imposed on us by Israel.”

Learn more about him and his successful construction.

Muhammad Hassaan is a 23 year old engineering student from Pakistan. For his final project, Muhammad and his two other teammates Zia Bakht Butt and Bilal Ahmad designed a hybrid solar and biomass power generation system. Part of their system was a solar concentrator, and they were looking for a simple and effective design to bundle sunlight. With our DIY construction plans, they built the Lytefire and were able to successfully test their use-case.
→ More about their project on our blog.

Low-tech Lab Grenoble’s association aims to disseminate, identify and promote low-tech in the region. Grégoire Pourcelot is a low-tech developer, active member and a builder. He wishes to support any one wishing to build their own Lytefire DIY stove or Lytefire DIY oven. With Grégoire, the Low-Tech Lab undertakes to carry out the constructions. The level of support is flexible and the training courses are suitable for everyone, whatever the level of DIY (very beginner to expert). Grégoire can also build for you a Lytefire Artisan.

→ See Facebook account
→ Contact: gregpourcelot@hotmail.fr and grenoble@lowtechlab.org