Friday, October 30, 2009

Crafting LED Light Arrays

Build Africa provides an update on the work of Nana Owusu Acheampong covered earlier:

Cheap Chinese LEDs, which are pervasive in Mali, have not yet reached this part of Ghana so Mr. Acheampong and others have started to make their own LED light arrays powered by wooden box battery holders. Asked how he came about the idea for the battery boxes, Mr. Acheampong explained that observed his radio worked that way so he “took the power out of his radio”.
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