Cuban homemade tools and technological disobedience

[Clockguy]

An amazing look into what people will do when they have no other option. I would be interested to see more of the things they have made, or especially a look into the books that were published.

I have followed Ernesto Oroza's rise from the time he graduated from school and found no work anywhere so he began collecting trash and scrap and old machines and salvaging motors and switches ans such and repurposing them into useful fans and mixers and other needed tools and equipment. I will post below some links for those who took the initiative, when Castro bankrupted the country, and the economy fell by almost 40%. Stores were empty, markets had nothing to sell for food, shelves were bare. This was THEIR SHTF Stage one when you could be shot in the streets for breaking curfew or walking against a red light, or most anything that the broken government thought was "illegal". And it was up to the citizens to fend for themselves if they wanted to survive. And, survive they did! Read and watch as "clandestine public disobedience" slowly became a way of life for many Cubans as they foraged and collected things that would help them or one of their friends to survive for one more day or week .....

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-c...73R70U20110428

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science...inventors-cuba

This next link will lead the reader to one of the most interesting and thought provoking series of events which hardly anyone (at least anyone I know) would have a wisp of a notion about, that I have read to date.

https://cubaholidays.co.uk/blogs/pos...then-the-world

Good links if you simply want to look at "Objects of Necessity" and "Architecture of Necessity".

JPG from Havana (II) by Grégory Marion – 2015 – Technological Disobedience Archive – by Ernesto Oroza

Ernesto Oroza – Architecture of Necessity – by Ernesto Oroza

It is amazing how the Cubans have cobbled things that simply do not fit in the row of sensible addition but they have done well with the little that they had to work with. If you want a helpful hint, I installed a Translator app on my PC and whenever you go to a page that the Translator is equipped to convert, it will quickly translate and over-print the Spanish or Portuguese with an English translation. It makes it much easier to read and understand.