How is this for frugal inventing? An African Inventor used recycled tech scraps to create a 3D printer! Makes me want to visit some recycling electronic centers!
From the article:
The small West African nation of Togo is one of the last places you’d expect to find a maker space–a workshop where inventors and tinkerers can work on new projects to their heart’s content. But inside the capital city of Lome, there’s a maker space.Woelab bills itself as “Africa’s first space for democratic technology” and it’s home to Kodjo Afate Gnikou. Afate’s latest invention was recently unveiled, and it’s amazing: A3-D printer made from cheap discarded electronics of the kind found all over the world.
Using crowdfunding from Ulule (French-language link), Afate built a workable 3-D printer using less than $100 in parts. Ulule investors provided him with a modest $4,000 to develop the low-cost fabricator, and a functional prototype was completed. In his crowdfunding page, Afate compares the potential impact of 3-D printing on society to that of the steam engine in the 19th century.
Read more here: http://www.fastcompany.com/3019880/this-african-inventor-created-a-100-3-d-printer-from-e-waste
Brick ONeil 
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