Have you ever woken up from a dream, only to have it vanish like smoke? It’s a frustrating experience, one that plagued Zang Luka Bot, a Jos-based technopreneur. But in 2017, after one forgettable dream too many, Luka decided to fight back. His audacious goal? To build a dream recorder.
“I wanted a device that would let me replay my dreams upon waking,” Bot told Bendada.com.
This dream fueled his experimentation. However, a harsh reality check awaited him: a lack of basic resources. It was then that Bot stumbled upon a hidden treasure trove – electronic waste, also known as e-waste. Throughout Jos, the capital of Plateau State, he noticed discarded devices, deemed useless by their owners.
“That’s when I discovered the value of e-waste,” he said. “We found that 80% of its components were valuable.”
This discovery became the key to unlocking Bot’s childhood dream of a science career. Despite being steered towards social sciences in secondary school due to his grades, Bot’s passion for science burned bright. He became a self-taught scholar, devouring textbooks, and online videos, and conducting his experiments, like the time he boiled kerosene to…
Johnstone Kpilaakaa
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