Iām saddened by the fact that all we would do about this is just ālikeā it. And thatās where it ends.
Erā¦
So this was posted 20 hours ago, on a Sunday. You come along five hours later, and are dramatically saddened that all people have done is hit ālikeā. Perhaps if you had led with the kind of behaviour that you were hoping to see, people who come after you might follow your example?
Having said that, there is not a lot of context around the post itself, @henryc. We āsee what you sawā (rather opaque choice of title, unless you are experimenting with curiousity gap headlines), but thereās precious little information to help a viewer understand whatās going on, both on the Radar post, on the YouTube page, and even in the video itself, which is probably why itās been viewed only thrice. Iām assuming those views are yours, mine and @celestocalculusā. Would you care to expatiate, please?
I watched the video. I ālikedā what I saw (both in the actual sense of liking it & tapping ālikeā).
The guy would still be at the street displaying his craft for more ālikesā & admirations. And maybe with some small change coming his way. Nothing would be done to apply his skill in building a functional machine.
@lordbanks, do you get me now?
No, I donāt get you. Unless liking what we saw (both in the actual sense of liking it & tapping ālikeā) suffices for doing something to apply his skill in building a functional machine.
@henryc It is really important to help us understand what weāre seeing here. What is a āhydraulic powered evacuatorā? How is the principle in play here, and how did these kids who you clearly have access to build it? There is not a lot to go on here to understand whatās happening, talk less of contemplating direct action.
PS: The hydraulic question is because Iām confused about whether there is such a thing as hydraulic power, which would not be the same as hydraulic machinery which are powered by the principles of hydraulics.
Re the title.
This is Nairaland behaviour.
Loads of titles on Nairaland are just like this āLook what this guy didā or āSee what they foundā
Told you it was going to happen sooner or later.
@henryC posted something he found interesting, a toy-size hydraulics ācontraptionā probably made out of āthrow-awaysā.
@celestocalculus expressed a sad fact; that this display of talents would only get freakshow attention. Just for kicks. All on-lookers; even a state exec or local professor would toss away the possibility of this young self-taught āengineerā in the video vying for the next Von Braun.
I think in expressing āweā he didnāt mean the radar audience, More like we; Nigerians. And blame should start from the government.
Zuckerberg showed a knack for numbers at a tender age, his father put him at the tutorship of one of the best coders in the US (David Newman). The young boy in the video wonāt get the same opportunity and who knows what the nation would have lost as a result. #sadthoughts
- celeās sentiments in more words.
@lordbanks more pointless threads have being opened on radar, this hardly counts. If the āheadlessā headline runs foul of radarās regulations, then forgive my defence.
See sisterly, understanding the so-called āNairaland Behaviorā and that crowd we so easily distance ourselves from could mean the difference between success for your business and failure.
I can survive a dinner with a college professor and I also enjoy explaining what I do, sieving down to be barest terms, to my almost 60yrs old mom (who wouldnāt understand a thing except you were reading from the bible)
Learning how to bring both worlds of understand to bare is a necessity.
Iād try to understand both bellanaija and Nairalandās crowd, if Iād have any luck in making them into customers some day.
Offtopic though.
Thereās actually nothing wrong with not wanting your business to be patronized by the masses.
Luxury goods markets thrive on the fact that their products are inaccessible to everybody / the average person.
Thereās nothing wrong with being a niche platform that values quality over mindless quantity.
Can we just drop this āRadar becoming Nairalandā issue and just continue to enjoy Radar. If you feel a user is abusing the platform, notify him/her nicely.
@lordbanks my sincere apologies for not providing more information about the video. I was on the move and a little bit in a hurry when I posted it.
So I met this little kid just beside shoprite gate in Enugu. He was displaying his craft and people were encouraging him by dropping some cash and a few words of advice. I spoke to him and he explained what inspired him and how he made little machine. He is a student of Government Technical College Enugu and made the little machine for display so he could get some money to sustain himself in school. The machine is powered by the pressure from water flowing through the tubes and is controlled by the series of clinical syringes attached to the tubes to move the various parts of the machine.
I donāt have the boyās contact but I believe he can be traced. Maybe the radar community can actually do something beyond ālikingā the post.
Let the tracing begin! Where do we start? Shoprite gate in Enugu?
I guess I would have to take the job of visiting Enugu again to locate the boyā¦ Lets see how I do that by Thursday this week.
Nice. Thanks for changing the title and the extra info. One way or another, weāre gonna find this kid.
I will come back here with more info when I get it.
Way to go bro @henryC !
Iām excited that we can actually do something beyond ālikingā it. I boxed myself up earlier when I felt like the only thing we could do was ālikeā it. I for one, experienced a couple of these types of display of talents around street corners while growing up here in Lagos. I remember specifically seeing something exactly of this nature: someone displaying a hydraulic machine he built; but it never left the streets. So my initial sentiments echoed those experiences.
So itās operation find the kid for now. Then we can figure out a way to make him apply his skill in more useful ways.
@henryC I wonder what youād do when you locate the boy again. Stow him away to Lag?
If I might suggest, taking from the pool of immediate support. I believe thereās a nigh-robotics program running out of CChub, if they have a study guide, it wouldnāt hurt to get the young boy one.
The radar community could pitch in a camera phone for the kid, to make videos of his ingenuious contraptions. If the guide proves helpful and heās really prolific, you could get him a YouTube channel to have more fun with. Who knows what might come out of it!
off the toppa me head
Lets see what happens if I find the boy!
The kid will benefit from some training/mentorship in Robotics/Mechatronics. I think @EditiEffiong is running some robotics programme. Heās should be involved. Sadly, I canāt help much though Iām a mechanical engineer by training (Robotics wasnāt my area of interest back in school).
PS: I watched a similar setup built by some Indian kids on Facebook.
Someone is headed there today, perhaps yāall can sync?