Architect, Digital fabrication enthusiast , Maker, CAD/CAM instructor https://teapaw.org/t.co/BltLRp0XEW
Joined September 2009
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Ugo Okafor retweeted
US news tends to dominate the media cycle; but the Pinglu Canal just completed by China (which most of us have never heard about), is a lot more significant than the recent "Blue Tsunami" in US politics.
I believe with Claude AI you can now reverse engineer the control system using maybe Raspberry Pi or Audrino of that old washing machine you had stored away because the manufacturer stopped making the control board for it.
Ugo Okafor retweeted
They should start with the 4th mainland bridge. The only reasonable way to link Apapa directly to Lagos Island is via an underwater tunnel.
Building a bridge there would require require long road ramps for the necessary bridge-water clearance for ships.
Ugo Okafor retweeted
Yes, a direct link to Apapa requires a tunnel. My tunnel proposal uses a less direct route to Apapa using a series of tunnels, T1 from Ahmadu Bello Way to Atlas Beach, T2 from Marina Shoals to Snake Island.
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Ugo Okafor retweeted
Some minutes before 9 to 5 starts..but before I switch into work mode.. I just finished something I have been working on for years..
A complete 100% open source of my solar setup. Including detailed schematics, component I used down to every MCB and alternative you can use. where I got them, official distributors I used.
I worked with claude over the weekend to push this over the line.
I added a complete list of bill of materials. I made it very easy and simple to follow. as you know.. I would be releasing this out with a blog post.
Also open source is how I built this so anyone can also use same format to publish their own system.
I started this journey 10 years ago knowing zero about electricity.. everything I learned as been someone sharing their knowledge.. this is just me giving back.
see you at past 17:01
before then a sneak peak..
Ugo Okafor retweeted
I’m happy to share that we just got delivery of our latest equipment, an industrial laser cutting machine at @CIC_Makerspace .
Yes, we’re open for business 🤗
Ugo Okafor retweeted
This is even funnier it was written in Ukraine 🇺🇦. Ukrainians have a strong hold on tilling in Europe cc @ijele5000 @EdwinAka
Ugo Okafor retweeted
Meet the Honghu Mark 1, China's fully tilting rotor eVTOL, developed by a team from Northwestern Polytechnical University!
It lifts off like a helicopter, then tilts its rotors forward to cruise like a plane at 290 km/h!
It carries 5 people, has a max takeoff weight of 2,500 kg, and flies 60 minutes on one charge!
At just 65 decibels, it is as quiet as a passing car, and its all-electric design makes it far cheaper to run!
Ugo Okafor retweeted
You can't, in one breath, say “Nigeria is poor” and then show ministers driving Rolls-Royce and civil servants flying private jets
Your optics don't match your data
No minister anywhere in the UK, US, EU or OECD drives a Rolls-Royce in official capacity; none (even if they can afford it)
If Nigeria is poor? (she is not) then let the “poverty” reflect in how the executive and legislature spend public taxes
Ugo Okafor retweeted
الهند 🇮🇳
😰😱😨🥺🤦🏻😳🔞🔞🔞🔞🔞🔞
مستجدات حول الحادثة الصادمة في إحدى مدارس "بانشكولا"، حيث تعرضت طفلة تبلغ من العمر 6 سنوات لاعتداء وحشي على يد طفل في 8 من عمره داخل أحد الفصول الدراسية. إليكم تفاصيل ما حدث:
🔹 سبب الاعتداء: نشب خلاف بين الطفلين بعد دمج فصليهما الدراسيين. فقد الطفل السيطرة على أعصابه بسبب نوبة غضب شديدة، زاعماً أن الطفلة أهانته بوصفه "مريضاً عقلياً" وهددت بإبلاغ والديها بما حدث.
🔹 غياب الرقابة: تُركت الطفلة تنزف بشدة وفاقدة للوعي لما يقرب من ساعتين داخل فصل دراسي فارغ ومعزول في الطابق الأول، وذلك نتيجة غياب تام لأي إشراف من قِبل طاقم المدرسة.
🔹 كيف تم العثور عليها: عند فقدان أثر الطفلة وقت انتهاء اليوم الدراسي، سارعت عائلتها إلى المدرسة للبحث عنها. وفي مفاجأة صادمة، أخبر الطفل المتهم (8 سنوات) والدَ الطفلة بكل برود أنها موجودة في الطابق العلوي، وقاد العائلة مباشرة إلى الغرفة المغلقة حيث وُجدت الطفلة ملقاة وسط بركة من دمائها.
🔹 أقوال الطفل: خلال استجوابه من قِبل الشرطة، اعترف الطفل -وفقاً للتقارير- بارتكاب الواقعة، مشيراً إلى أنه خطط لها انتقاماً من الإهانات التي وجهتها إليه. كما ذكر زملاؤه في الفصل أنه معروف بسلوكه العنيف وإدمانه على ألعاب الفيديو التي تتسم بالعنف.
🔹 الوضع الحالي للطفل: بموجب القانون الهندي، لا يمكن سجن الطفل نظراً لصغر سنه (8 سنوات). وهو يخضع حالياً لتقييم طبي ونفسي إلزامي من قِبل خبراء في شؤون الطفل، وذلك لتقييم حالته الذهنية قبل أن تتخذ "هيئة عدالة الأحداث" قراراً بشأن إعادة تأهيله.
🚨جريمة مروعة بطلها طفل في الثامنة من عمره في الهند 🇮🇳
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أثناء بحث أب عن ابنته المفقودة (6 سنوات)، والتي تدرس في مرحلة الإبتدائية ، اقترب منه طفل في الثامنة من عمره وادعى أنه يعرف مكانها، ثم قاده إلى فصل دراسي مغلق.
داخل الفصل، وجد الأب ابنته فاقدة للوعي ومغطاة بالدماء، بعد أن تعرضت للضرب على رأسها بشكل قوى و كبير .
أظهرت لقطات كاميرات المراقبة أن الطفل الذي تظاهر بمساعدة الأب هو في الواقع الجاني الحقيقي.
حتى بعد أن فقدت الطفلة وعيها، استمر الطفل في رشقها بأصص النباتات ومواصلة الاعتداء عليها.
وبعد ذلك مباشرة، كذب بوقاحة ليقود الأب إلى مكان وجودها! 🤬
أمر صادم للغاية؛ فالسلوك الذي أبداه هذا الطفل البالغ من العمر 8 سنوات يعكس نزعة إجرامية سيكوباتية.
هذا الطفل مضطرب تماماً‼️ teapaw.org/ddakzip/status/2116687…
Ugo Okafor retweeted
🇨🇳 Controlled nuclear fusion has long been one of the greatest challenges facing scientists worldwide.
On Bilibili, I watched footage presented by Chinese scientists showing the interior of EAST, a fusion device independently built by China. EAST has now achieved steady-state high-confinement plasma operation for 1,066 seconds at temperatures exceeding 100 million degrees Celsius. This is a major step forward in fusion research and a reminder of China's growing role in shaping the future of clean energy.
China’s scientific community has no kings, no obsession with awards and no elite self-congratulation. It is driven by one determination: to bring science out of the laboratory and put it to work for humanity. China does not need Nobel Prizes to prove its worth. Chinese technology is not about accolades or trophies. It is about solving real problems and genuinely serving the people.
China is not just transforming the world—it is building the future!
Ugo Okafor retweeted
This is the most insane demo I’ve seen. Subvocal YC F26 lets you speak completely silently and reads the minute movements of your face. So you can talk to your AI anytime.
AI + sensors is magic.
What’s crazier is they built this in 4 months. This demo was live yesterday evening at the YC office.
We’ve raised $1.3M from YC & Afore Capital so you never have to type or speak again.
Typing is slow. Talking into your computer is awkward. Subvocal fixes both
Our glasses give you the speed of speech without you making a sound or touching a keyboard.
It tracks your internal speech muscles with non-contact sensing and decodes silent, almost invisible mouthing into text at more than 200 words/min.
Pre-orders are now live at:
subvocal.co/preorder?utm_sou…
Ugo Okafor retweeted
They said African languages were too fragmented, too complex and too commercially insignificant to build advanced AI for.
We disagreed. So we built it.
64 languages. 166 voices. 3 billion parameters. ONE model.
Today, we are unveiling STORM-Ensemble 3.0, the most capable multilingual speech synthesis model we have built at PlotWeaver.
From Yorùbá, Igbo, Hausa and Nigerian Pidgin to Swahili, Amharic, Wolof, Zulu, Xhosa and dozens more, STORM-Ensemble 3.0 generates speech across 64 languages, with 166 distinct speaker voices.
Every voice you hear is generated by our model, not a prerecorded sample.
But the real breakthrough isn't the numbers.
It's what becomes possible when this technology is in the hands of people who can build with it.
-African filmmakers distributing stories across languages.
-Banks and telcos serving customers in their mother tongues.
-Education platforms reaching more children.
-Developers building voice AI products without starting from scratch.
We are not building AI for African languages simply to prove it can be done. We are building the infrastructure to make our languages commercially viable at global scale.
Next week, I will be speaking at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Antigua about unlocking the Commonwealth's creative potential. This launch is a practical demonstration of that ambition.
Africa must not simply consume the future of AI. We must build, own and shape the infrastructure that powers it.
Watch the video. Listen to the voices. Imagine what's possible.
Introducing STORM-Ensemble 3.0.
PlotWeaver. Build Once. Speak Every Language.
#PlotWeaver #STORMEnsemble #VoiceAI #AfricanLanguages
GL&SS, formerly known as Dewhurst Macfarlane and Partners should be one of the top structural firms that have pushed the limits of structural glass in modern-day buildings bit.ly/3WDQt. The Canilever glass canopy, Tokyo. is still very impressive lusas.com/case/civil/cantile…
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Ugo Okafor retweeted
Today we announce $25M in funding for Circuit Mind.
We are building trustworthy, defensible AI for electronics design to 100x the work of the pro engineers who design the most critical boards that extend humanity's frontier circuitmind.io/
I am happy to see farmers using this cheap method to move plantain from the farms to collection points. This method is also used in Siri Lanka to transport guavas harvested from the orchards. vt.tiktok.com/ZSgP7gY8J/
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Why the Venezuelan Apartment blocks collapsed during the 2026 earthquake vt.tiktok.com/ZSgPH64ya/
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Ugo Okafor retweeted
BREAKING: A fusion startup says it has turned mercury into gold, producing 10 times more than CERN's previous record.
Marathon Fusion says it achieved this using nuclear fusion.
For now, the amounts are tiny. But gold's price depends on it being rare, so anything that makes gold easier to produce is worth watching.
