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Posts in Category ‘Transportation’

  • May 13, 2013
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Wheel balancing is totally overrated

A Kenyan Facebook user recently shared these images of a craftsman in Eldoret (Kenya) who repairs rims: Kenya fixit? Eh! (via Silas Salavi)

  • Posted in: Jua Kali, Transportation
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  • February 22, 2013
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How to fix a bicycle tube

How to fix a bicycle tube… when a glued patch isn’t appropriate: (direct link to the video) “To fix such a problem, we designed a new way of fixing. You can simply tie the place, no need of glue, no … Read more →

  • Posted in: How-To, Jua Kali, Recycle & Reuse, Transportation
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  • May 29, 2012
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Ndege ya imani

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 version of a microlight aircraft. In the following video, … Read more →

  • Posted in: Gadgets, Ingenuity, Innovator Series, Metal, Transportation
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  • August 23, 2011
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A mobile phone security system for your car

In Nyeri, Kenya a young man named Peterson Mwangi has created a way to start and switch off a car engine, via an SMS command from his cell phone. This is a lot like Morris Mbetsa’s anti-theft vehicle system using … Read more →

  • Posted in: Ingenuity, Transportation
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  • January 27, 2011
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Lamutiki

Anyone remembers David Mayer de Rothschild’s Plastiki, “a 60 feet (18 m) catamaran made out of 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles and other recycled PET plastic and waste products” that successfully conquered the Pacific Ocean last year? Well, it seems this … Read more →

  • Posted in: Materials, Transportation, Water
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