Wonderful reading about technology and innovation that is adapted to local needs and serves great purpose. Just not Amazon same-day delivering one more thing I did not need (and definitely with such great urgency) to my front porch by drone. The inventor says:
"We built it two days ago, in two hours. With controls, motors, receiver, power system, GPS, 3D-printed parts—it’s about US $150. And bamboo is around for free.”
Fitness for purpose goes a long way - and sometimes the humbler, cheaper solution is the one of best fit
A handful of European drone companies exhibited their machines, all of them very capable, all built with custom hardware and software and encased in sleek fiberglass and carbon fiber. But these drones are too expensive for East Africa. Here the drones need to be cheap, both to build and to repair—and that means bamboo and zip ties instead of fiberglass and carbon fiber.
"We built it two days ago, in two hours. With controls, motors, receiver, power system, GPS, 3D-printed parts—it’s about US $150. And bamboo is around for free.”
Fitness for purpose goes a long way - and sometimes the humbler, cheaper solution is the one of best fit
A handful of European drone companies exhibited their machines, all of them very capable, all built with custom hardware and software and encased in sleek fiberglass and carbon fiber. But these drones are too expensive for East Africa. Here the drones need to be cheap, both to build and to repair—and that means bamboo and zip ties instead of fiberglass and carbon fiber.
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