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How a Kenyan Farmer’s Invention to Scare Off Lions With LED Lights Inspired Engineers Around the World
When I was eleven years old, my biggest technological achievement was figuring out how to blow into a video game cartridge just right so it wouldn’t freeze on the loading screen. When Richard Turere was eleven years old, he was put in charge of protecting his family’s cattle on the edge of Nairobi National Park… Read more
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The Inspiring Story of Malawi’s DIY Windmill Maker
Let’s go back to the early 2000s in Malawi. A country many of us probably can’t point out on a map without zooming in a few times. But that’s where a 14-year-old boy named William Kamkwamba decided he was tired of watching his village starve… so he built a windmill. Wait. What? Yes. A windmill.… Read more