Uganda Hackerspace
Our makerspace in Jinja, Uganda is funded by the hacker community and provides free advanced instruction and resources for budding technologists. We teach robotics, design, programming and much more. Although it has been funded by the hacker community since 2015, we are seeking corporate donors to continue the funding of this terrific project. The annual operating costs for the hackerspace alone is approximately $5,000.
A group of local high school students and university-age young adults has taken an intense interest in advanced technology study and has founded a competitive robotics team based in our hackerspace. Take a moment to visit their self-built webpage:
To learn more about our hackerspace, read the stories below, or to get involved, please join our community.
Tales from our hackerspace
Why do we teach robotics in Africa? This is why.
When there are "starving kids in Africa", why bother with robotics?
Zero to 3D Printing robots and prosthetics in Uganda with the Ultimaker2
It's been a fun journey, but here's how we went from zero knowledge to printing prosthetic hands and robots with out Ultimaker 2!
Former Street Girls and Robotics – Mirembe Girls, Uganda
We are so grateful from the young ladies from Just Cause Uganda, who came all the way from Canada to train this great group of former homeless ("street") girls in our Jinja, Uganda hackerspace. Here's their blog entry from the last week of robotics training, copied from their web site: [...]
First class for former Ugandan homeless (“street”) girls
We’re proud to announce our first robotics course designed especially for Ugandan girls! In this class, we brought in former homeless (“street”) girls from Mirembe Cottage for Street Girls (http://www.sonriseministriesinc.org/mirembecottage). We worked alongside Sarah and Michelle from http://www.justcausecanada.org. The class was such a raging success that we’re prepping the girls [...]
Outernet, LittleBits, Farmers, RasPi, Pains of Fast Internet- All the things
It’s been a crazy couple of days. I can hardly keep up. Sorry in advance that this post is so scatterbrained. First, we have a new line on Internet service. It’s not public so I can’t talk too much about it, but let’s say that we now have redundant internet [...]
High-contrast, high-tech: Uganda’s first Outernet node!
We have some pretty wickedly cool things going on in Uganda right now, and I managed to capture the essence of it with photos. The small dish on the left hand side is our UTL nano bridge for our Internet. The workers on the roof are installing a larger 90cm [...]