Man China has made electronics affordable for third worlders. I never thought I'd see the day when washing machines, laptops, big fridges/freezers & oven cookers could be affordable. When only big brands used to make this stuff you needed to sell your soul in Kenya to afford one.
i'm obsessed with AI DIY projects.
my favorite one right now is this broccoli farmer in hokkaido, japan using Codex to run his 100-hectare farm
this guy never studied agriculture, never inherited land, started out as a civil servant.
but he wanted his farm to run better, and instead of paying an engineering firm he couldn't afford, he just built the tools himself.
here's what he's built on his own:
> remote control of his greenhouse vents from a chat app, wired up with an esp32 board, a motor driver, and cloudflare workers
> a bot that checks each greenhouse's temperature and opens the vents when it gets too hot
> satellite crop-health data laid over a map of his own fields
> an airtable base linking his plots, tasks, materials, and sensors
> wiring diagrams of his electrical panels, generated from a photo
stuff like this used to be locked behind machinery and engineers only the big agribusinesses could pay for.
but this legend just breezed past all of it with a laptop and Codex lol
😭🇫🇷 Rayan Cherki on his pose in the France team photo:
“Nah… Don’t talk about that. It’s a matter of respect, I was standing next to the Minister.
I couldn’t be above her, or have her seen less than me. So I crouched down!”
Former Diamond Trust Bank (DTB) Parklands branch manager Salimah Pirbhal, her assistant Aabid Kassam, and a third suspect have been charged with stealing Sh149.2M from a client's account.
( Video Courtesy Nairobi Timez)
Mbagathi way was built by bamburi cement as a test project to assess the viability of using concrete to construct roads in 2006. 18 years later bado haina potholes. The government declined implementation of the concept on other roads
@historyinmemes All Kenya's first four Presidents in one room.🇰🇪
Sitting -1st President Jomo Kenyatta
Child sitting -4th President, Uhuru Kenyatta
Bending Standing (far right -3rd President, Mwai Kibaki
Second far Right -2nd President, Daniel Moi