2009 MakerFaireAfrica participant Pat Delany of the MultiMachine fame presents “A full-scale machine shop” built along similar principles: 4 simple, cheap tools for Africa View more presentations from Emeka_Okafor.
Pat Delany inventor of the MultiMachine who we were so lucky to have at MFA09 talks about “the really big things that happened” at the event. As if that was not enough he shrugged off the abortive takeoff his departing Delta flight experienced: Should be home by now but plane had engine trouble on takeoff.Better [...]
As a follow-up to the invigorating inaugural Maker Faire Africa 2009. The organizing team has announced a number of initiatives to harness the momentum and energy felt at the Accra event. They are: Maker Faire 2010 Nairobi, Kenya A build-a-MultiMachine prize An inaugural Maker prize to be launched at MFA 2010 A Maker Directory for [...]
Reports from the first Maker Faire Africa are starting to come in. Afrigadget has been active amidst the standing room only crowds. Here’s what’s up: This morning at Maker Faire Africa, after a short introduction by Nii Simmonds and Emeka Okafor, the team (MFA sponsors) from AndSpace Labs have been moderating a “show and tell” by some of [...]
Fundamentally speaking one of the most essential components of any industrial ecosystem is the machine tool a device which is used to “fabricate metal components of machines“. Consequently the absence of a machining capacity precludes the ability of an entity (regional,national and or continent-wide) to industrialize.The question then becomes how do we effectively seed and [...]
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