By- Okafor Chika U.
Smart Bread-Board
A Multi-Functional Testing Device For Electrical and Electronics Laboratories
Fully developed in the year 2010, conceptualized, designed and fabricated by a group of geeky nerds at Faculty of Engineering, Helwan University Egypt for their graduation project and debuting @ Maker Faire Africa Cairo 2011 Egypt, the Smart Bread-board is a technological marvel. With a minimalist design philosophy at it's ethos the smart bread-board is much more utilitarian than it looks.
A Multi-functional testing device to be used in both individual(DIY) and institutional laboratories, the smart breadboard is designed to eliminate the complexity, inefficiency, unreliability and time wasting effort attributed to wiring and bridging components to a circuit the old way i.e manually
By eliminating the problems of manual connections, flexibility and ease of connection has been achieved. The Smart Bread-board further interfaces with a computer via a USB connection allowing for control through a customized software.
Thus making it an additional must-have DIY analytical tool in the toolkit of both amateur and professional electrical/electronics enthusiast.
By- Okafor Chika U.
Architect, Artist, Designer, Jeweler and Public Figure....Yes, Eman Banna is all that and more....She is also the creator of the "Tea Bag Balance" a simple yet elegant solution to an age old problem. Made out of thin copper plates, from what 'would have been discarded materials' from her jewelry making craft. She artistically breathes new life into these materials.
The Ornamental reusable "Tea Bag Balance" solves the age old problem of Tea Bag Labels falling back into the tea cup or tea pot ,during the process of brewing, stirring or drinking out of the tea cup by acting as a counter weight to the otherwise soaked tea bag.
Debuting her creation @ makerfaireafrica Cairo 2011 which took place @ the American University New Cairo Campus. Multi-Talented and Multi-Layered Eman's creative genius never ceases to captivate the audience either while exhibiting her 'Tea Bag Balance' at her makerfaireafrica booth or in her seemingly relaxed mode honing her creative crafting skills @ the makefaire workshop sessions for free to willing participants, manifesting her philosophical jewelry making concept of simplicity and design using everyday materials such as used copper wires,brass etc, crafting them into jewelry which she calls "Life Accessories"
Jewelry suitable for both ancient and modern day Prince and Princesses of Egypt...Guess The Pharaohs would have been proud.
Fully developed in the year 2010, conceptualized, designed and fabricated by a group of geeky nerds at Faculty of Engineering, Helwan University Egypt for their graduation project and debuting @ Maker Faire Africa Cairo 2011 Egypt, the Smart Bread-board is a technological marvel. With a minimalist design philosophy at it's ethos the smart bread-board is much more utilitarian than it looks.
A Multi-functional testing device to be used in both individual(DIY) and institutional laboratories, the smart breadboard is designed to eliminate the complexity, inefficiency, unreliability and time wasting effort attributed to wiring and bridging components to a circuit the old way i.e manually
By eliminating the problems of manual connections, flexibility and ease of connection has been achieved. The Smart Bread-board further interfaces with a computer via a USB connection allowing for control through a customized software. 
