Weekend Hacks: Fabrication and Furniture workshop.

You might have wondered what i was up to during last Christmas and in the past 3 months, working on over the weekends. I was putting together and assembling a fabrication, papyrus weaving and wood workshop for some cool ideas to come like cheap home cctv, automatic gates fabrication and wiring, auto-light sensors , motion detection sensors and just some cool home fabricated and woven furniture from papyrus and water hyacinths from Lake Victoria. 

Now it's been 3 months, but i don't have any exciting NEWS to share :( and i can say the main activity that has really picked up has been the wood and weaving part. It's been really hard to get a few skilled folks (Graduate Elec, and Mechan Engineers) who can buy into my idea and work pro-bono with me as we try to find what works and what doesn't work. In addition, to that, the whole fabrication industry got so many challenges that i hadn't foreseen. Things like battling with the local Electricity company to provide good connections, recently our Welding machine short circuited and i lost ~1k$ USD instantly. Challenges with the City Council Authority and Revenue who won't understand that this is a trial process. I won't give up yet but just slow down in this path, as i go back to the table for plan B. Watch this space for our weekend playground and hacker space area in #Kampala. For now, please pass by Ntinda in Kampala and check out our furnitures at www.facebook.com/wtfworkshop