Sunday 30 November 2008

More expo

The expo was good for Hazel to do some shopping. I liked the machines more, my dad would have loved it.

The simplest thing was a fire free cooker; basically a basket lined with duvet. You bring your pot to the boil and then put it in there and it keeps cooking.
The handmade ovens were also impressive.

look also at www.technologycentre.go.ke

Another instrument was a stone-crusher, not sure why. You give a wheel with fly-wheel a push and keep going while you put a stone in and crumbs come out the bottom.
To most useful thing was a brickmaker. In this machine you put your dirt and with a huge lever you compress it to a brick.

See also www.makiga.com

This brick is kind of Lego shaped, this means you can build a whole building without using mortar. A second one does the same, only it makes slightly round stones, specially useful for making watertanks.

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