Digital Blacksmiths

Industrious and organised. 3D printed ants made from recycled PET bottles in Nairobi

Lovely multi coloured PET filament made from recycled bottles in our Nairobi workshop

Solomon working with a teacher to test the use of 3D printing to prototype educational resources at KICD's Educational Resources Prototype Development Workshop in Meru.

Catch The DigitalBlacksmiths tonight at 9:45pm on inooro tv a top vernacular kenyan broadcaster as we tell you how we turn trash into treasure.

last year we had the opportunity of attending The First National PET fORUM and EXPO,Here is a snippet of what went down.

1st National PET Forum and Exhibition held on 9th November 2018 at the KICC Theme: Strengthening the PET value chain in Kenya for a Clean and Healthy Environment

SWITCH TV a local broadcaster features us tonight at 8pm.please watch and share your views

Its a beehive of activities for the Digitalblacksmiths as we welcome the new year,thanks for the visit IPSOS BUSINESS CONSULTING and SWITCH TV and a happy new recycling year.

It was great hosting SLUM CULTURE PRODUCTION Co., Ltd at the Maker Space today.at the centre of attraction below was an Educational version of the Digital Microscope.
a big thank you to Kazunobu Hayasaki, managing director and Joseph F. Pongu IT manager/architect.

At the first National PET forum & expo we met the state run media organisation KBC and if you missed our feature below is the link...

How plastic bottles could be used in research Has it ever crossed your mind what used and discarded plastic bottles could be used in research? Well, maybe not. Our reporter Brian Itava, features a pair o...

The state run media organisation,Kenya broadcasting corporation {KBC} airs the Digital Blacksmiths story tonight at 9 pm Kenyan time be sure to catch that, your feedback is highly appreciated.

Digital Blacksmiths Kenya - 3D printing from trash We've developed the world's first low cost open source system for recycling plastic water bottles for 3D printing as well as building 3D printers from recycled e-waste. We're now using these tools to make science teaching aids, such as our 3D printed microscope, for some of the poorest schools in Ke...

Read the latest blog post about our work, published in Atlas & Ortus:

Digital Blacksmiths: Tackling Pollution & Poverty through 3D Printing If, like many of the environmentally conscious among us, you tuned into BBC’s Drowning In Plastic and were left reeling at the site of baby birds vomiting up pieces of hard plastic, you probably won’t be surprised at the topic we’re covering in this blog… And although most people are in agre...