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Nokia: Bicycle Charger Kit for Mobiles
There was a major announcement today from Nokia about the release of cheap phones for the emerging markets, featuring dual sims and the ever useful LED flashlight. What is even more interesting is that...
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Solving the flexible biogas digester problems
You’d think that given the amount of cow dung available around rural Africa that biogas would be a big hit right? Well, its actually relatively unknown. The main reason is materials, coast and...
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House hold jua kali gadgets
I’ve been going around and checking out what people have at home – here are some lovely ideas to save money while recycling See through wire radio - and it works! This amazing radio was purchased on...
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Poop piki piki for my biogas system
Piki piki means motorbike in Kiswahili This gadget was created to solve a real problem with biogas – getting the dung to the system quickly and efficiently. Motorbikes are the taxi’s of Africa so why...
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Remote Controlled Toy ATV
Miniature versions of vehicles are as popular with kids in Cameroon as anywhere else. Adult craftsmen across the continent use materials such as wire, beads and recycled cans to create toy bicycles,...
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13 year old Kenyan innovator saves cattle from lions with lights
Richard Turere lives in Empakasi,on the edge of the Nairobi National Park, just south of the City of Nairobi. He is responsible for herding his family the livestock and keeping them safe from...
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Dear all, Richard Turere, the 13 year old inventor I posted about here, was selected to audition for TED. For his presentation Stefano Cassini and I made him a video. Many people have been asking how...
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I.T. specialist Gabriel Nderitu from Kenya just won’t give up on his dream and did it again: after some previous experiements with a homemade aircraft, he returns with an unmanned, remote-controlled...
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Urine Powered Generator by 4 Nigerian Teenage Girls
[Note: I originally wrote this post for Maker Faire Africa in Lagos this week, cross-posting it here] Possibly one of the more unexpected products at Maker Faire Africa this year in Lagos is a urine...
View ArticleMaker Faire Africa 2012: Lagos, in Pictures
As one of the founding organizers for Maker Faire Africa, I’ve had the privilege to be a part of this unfolding maker movement in Africa. To be honest, it’s been going on for a while, so I guess what...
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A Tablet for Africa?
For many of you reading this, the title of this article might lead you to a vision of one laptop per child – or some other Silicon Valley vision of progress for Africa. The technology I wish to discuss...
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The DIY Three-Wheeler
Kevin Becker recently moved to Kenya and built this great DIY three-wheeler for his son. “My son wants to be outside all of the time. This three-wheel cart allows him to pedal himself around like Fred...
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