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Engineering the Eye 22 Aug 2013 | 06:43 pm
Medical Makerspaces emerge, Engineering the Eye: LVP Eye Hospital and School for the Blind, Ideation is building Hardware, Rapid Prototyping... What happened when doctors and engineers came togethe....
Richard Turere: Inventor 18 Aug 2013 | 08:16 pm
From TED: In the Masai community where 13-year-old Richard Turere lives, cattle are all-important. But lion attacks were growing more frequent. In this short, inspiring talk, the young inventor share...
Making Mahogany Spare Parts 17 Aug 2013 | 08:17 pm
Imagine these folks in an equipped makerspace. From the Medium, African Makers series, Mozambican craftsmen who fabricate spare parts from hardwoods: Paulo works with a group of fifteen or twenty oth...
Maker Stories | The Apo Mechanics Village 16 Aug 2013 | 07:35 pm
Undervalued informal industrial clusters. Nigerian Stories spotlights Abuja's Apo Mechanics village: As an outsider, it's possible to look at Nigeria in two ways. You can scoff because nothing is don...
Antimalarial Agent - Fasoap 15 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
CNN reports on the work of Moctar Dembele and Gerard Niyondiko creators of Fasoap: Image courtesy of CNN ...an award-winning innovation by two students in Burkina Faso could help reduce the devastat...
The 'Modern Machine Technology' Company 14 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Modern Machine Technology founded by Abdulkariim Katende is a machine fabrication company whose aim "to provide modern but affordable machines used for "making candles ,chalks ,breaks among others.": ...
Restrizymes Biotherapeutics 13 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Founded by Misaki Wayengera Restrizymes Biotherapeutics: ...was created in hopes of utilizing Zinc Finger Nucleases for the restriction of the global burden of human infectious pathogens. Their mis....
MediaTakeout by Fred Mwangaguhunga 13 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
The NYTimes reports on MediaTakeout founded by Fred Mwangaguhunga: The lanky Mr. Mwangaguhunga is neither an obsessed fan nor a celebrity stalker; he owns and runs the Web site Mediatakeout.com, and ...
"Making to Learn and Learning from Making 12 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
David Moinina Sengeh in conversation with Edge. He asks: image courtesy of Edge ...What are the set of things that you need to have in a culture, in any setting, such that if you bring a technology ...
Village-Industry 11 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Addis Ababa's Village Industry has an: ...ambition to provide our clients with flexible solutions for the production of textiles, garments and accessories. We use our own production facility but rely...
