[Video] Maker Faire Africa: Ghana 2009
August 27, 2009 No comments yet
This excellent Maker Faire Africa video compilation was created by the good folks at AfricaNews.
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Maker Faire Africa in the News
August 19, 2009 No comments yet
All the fun of the technology faire – The Gaurdian BBC Digital Planet podcast interview (starts around minute 13:00) Recap of Maker Faire Africa 2009 – ICT4D.at Maker Faire Africa ’09 thrills – AfricaNews Maker Faire Africa update – MAKE Magazine Maker Faire Africa showcases ingenuity – Crossing the Streams blog Interview with Emer Beamer [...]
Mozilla at Maker Faire Africa
August 19, 2009 No comments yet
(A review, overview and email from Kwamena Appiah-Kubi, the Mozilla team lead for Maker Faire Africa) Maker Faire Africa was interesting and exciting. My weekend couldn’t have been better spent. I met a lot of like minded people and and saw a lot of interesting things made locally I had never heard of. I also [...]
Afrobotics at Maker Faire Africa
August 17, 2009 No comments yet
There’s are some great pictures put up by Miquel of Maneno about Afrobotics, the initiative that was launched at Maker Faire Africa by a number of Ghanian engineers, business people and programmers. Afrobotics goal: “inspire African university students to be science, engineering, and technology leaders, by enabling them in innovative team-based competitions that build science, [...]
Maker Faire Africa Flickr Group
August 14, 2009 No comments yet
If you’re looking for any pictures of Maker Faire Africa, we have a Flickr group that has pictures. Keep updated on the newest images from the event, where a number of us are updating it multiple times throughout the day.
Maker Faire Africa in the News
August 14, 2009 No comments yet
[The Maker Faire Africa team at a press conference] Here are some of the media and blogs that have been writing about Maker Faire Africa: AfricaNews: Maker Faire Africa kicks off BikeJuju: Maker Faire Africa features bicycle-related inventors, projects The Ghanaian Chronicle via AllAfrica: Maker Faire Africa underway in Accra Core77: Maker Faire Africa is [...]
Building with Maker Dominic Wanjihia at MFA09
August 14, 2009 1 comment
[Snipped from Afrigadget] Dominic Wanjihia is from Kenya, and he’s here at Maker Faire Africa in Ghana because of the innovative designs and solutions that he comes up with for problems that ordinary Africans face. We had profiled one of his earlier inventions, an evapocooler for camel milk in Somalia, last year. He’s been in Accra [...]
Match a Maker
August 7, 2009 5 comments
The Maker Faire is all about Makers and meetings. In order to facilitate more exchange between makers and other makers and between makers and attendees Butterfly Works is running a Match a Maker service. Everyone at the Maker Faire will be invited to take part, fill in the form or text their request to a [...]
Maker Profile: Dominic Wanjihia
August 1, 2009 8 comments
Thanks to the generosity of an MFA supporter, Kenyan inventor Dominic Wanjihia will be attending Maker Faire Africa. Dominic, who first came to the anonymous donor’s attention through an article published on AfriGadget in 2008, describes himself as, “an inventor of appropriate technology, environmentally friendly gadgets applicable to … the empowerment of rural people.” [...]
Mobile Phone Charging in Ghana
June 29, 2009 4 comments
Matt Berg over at BuildAfrica blog has an interesting story of Mr Acheampong, a local entrepreneur who makes money by charging people’s mobile phones. He uses a homemade C-cell battery setup to do this (see below): “Mr. Acheampong, one of the Abusuapanin Community Leader’s in Bonsaaso village, use’s 4 C dry cell batteries to charge [...]
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