Here's an easy to make drop lamp video. Imports typically cost $15 or more in these parts of the world. This vid shows how to make them with locally sourced parts. Total cost of parts needed: under $3.5!
A Rwanda, Kenya vid coming soon with parts that are easily available there.
We can't keep waiting for the world to bring industrial automation to Nigeria. We have to start building it ourselves.
After 300+ hours of non-stop fabrication, spending more than 5kg in material, and gathering hundreds of individual components, this is the foundation of a 6-axis robotic arm built entirely from scratch.
They say hardware is hard. Doing it here is even harder. But holding the pieces of what this could become is a feeling I can't quite describe. Let's see if all the math was right. Assembly begins tomorrow.