This is part of an ongoing series of posts on the FLAP bag project, a collaborative effort by Timbuk2, Portable Light and Pop!Tech. We at AfriGadget are helping to field-test these bags that have solar power and lighting on them, … Read more →
I’m a sucker for radios and antennas, and was just so excited to see the guys from Accra Polytechnic at Maker Faire Africa. Hayford Bempong, David Celestin and Michael Amankwanor are three members of the National Society of Black Engineers … Read more →
This is a corn planter. It costs approximately $10 (15 Cedis) to make, and it significantly decreases the time that it would normally take to plant corn. This invention came about by taking a look a medical pill dispensing devices … Read more →
Cleaning massive amounts of water with chlorine from WhiteAfrican on Vimeo. Suprio Das is part of the water-cleansing team with Killian Deku, Laura Stupin and Bernard Kiwia. Besides the ball-valve doser, they’ve also created a siphon mechanism chlorine filter. It, … Read more →
With one 5 liter bag of chlorine, and a device that costs $3 to build, you can clean 100,000 liters of water. Here at Maker Faire Africa is Killian Deku, a Ghanaian working in the IDDS program, has created a … Read more →