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Gearbox – A Space for Tinkering and Making Things
Gearbox is a new makerspace in Kenya.The culture of making in Kenya has been there for decades and sometimes passes unnoticed in the form of Jua Kali artisan merchandise, carpenters and woodworkers,...
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Gearbox Creative Reuse Hackathon
Gearbox will be holding an Instructables Build event on 19th October, 2013 from 2pm – 5pm at the iHub. The theme for this event is ‘Creative Reuse’ which will be aimed at using recycling materials such...
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Gearbox Hardware Meet Up in San Francisco
Gearbox was in San Francisco last week and had the opportunity to hold a hardware meet up in the heart of the Bay Area maker community. With the help of our friends are TechShop, Juliet and Nathaniel...
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Flying Donkeys and Tech Expos
By Wachira Ndaiga- Gearbox intern What a month it’s been! Between all our everyday work and grind, we managed to sign up, build and compete in an IEEE expo competition, as well as arrange a wildly...
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shift 2020 Kickstarter campaign
Blogpost by: Rudy De Waele I am very pleased to announce my contribution to a new book project called shift 2020 - How Technology Will Impact Our Future. It’s a self-published book curated by Rudy De...
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Upcoming International Development Design Summit (IDDS) and Rethink Relief...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) D-Lab will be supporting two summits and applications are now open for both! Having attended a previous IDDS Brazil in 2012, I highly encourage any...
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New Africa prize highlights engineering as key development driver
Engineers from Nigeria and other sub-Saharan countries are invited to enter a major new prize which rewards innovation and entrepreneurship in engineering. The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) has...
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Lemelson Foundation Funds Gearbox!
Guest Blog by Paul Birkelo Exciting news! The Lemelson Foundation has awarded $90,000 to help fund the startup costs for Gearbox, East Africa’s first rapid prototyping, design, and manufacturing...
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Why the Maker Movement
You may have heard of the rise of The Maker Movement, otherwise known as the Techie-DIY Movement or the Maker Culture. It’s a movement born of idyllic principles and centered around empowering...
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Meet a Maker with Gearbox: CladLight
Following our last post, Why the Maker Movement, we figured it’d be great to develop a blog media series that goes towards defining the ‘state of the union’ as it were. Our Meet the Maker Series will...
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MILESTONES: GEARBOX NAMES EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Guest Post by Paul Birkelo Gearbox took an important step forward this last week with Dr. Kamau Gachigi taking the helm as Executive Director. Five years ago, Dr. Kamau founded the Fab Lab at the...
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