Cameroon Engineer Arthur Zang Invents the Cardiopad

24-year-old Arthur Zang, a Cameroonian engineer, invented the Cardiopad. The Cardiopad is a portable, touch screen device that enables heart examinations such as the electrocardiogram to be performed at remote locations while results of the test, are transferred wirelessly to specialists who can interpret them.

Arthur Zang also became a finalist in the 2012 CPS Distinguished Award for the Sciences.

Prophessor A.C.E. | Afrofuturistic Consciousness

This song was created using computer programming.  The lyrics for this song were created using Visual C++ and the output was read by "microsoft sam" text-to-speech software.  This project was done to use music as motivation and inspiration in learning Computer Programming.

First-grader creates mobile app video game

Harambee first-grade programmer Zora Ball

http://www.phillytrib.com/cityandregionarticles/item/7418-first-grader-creates-mobile-app-video-game.html#.UQNXzf8vIKA.email

Soon, officials from digital game creators EA Sports, Activision and many others may beat a path to the doors of the Harambee Institute of Science and Technology Charter School, especially if the school continues to turn our prodigies like first-grader Zora Ball.

Ball has become the youngest individual to create a full version of a mobile application video game, which she unveiled last month in the University of Pennsylvania’s Bodek Lounge during the university’s “Bootstrap Expo.”

Seven-year-old Ball has also become a master of the Bootstrap programming language, and when asked, Ball was able to reconfigure her application on the fly using Bootstrap.

“We expect great things from Zora, as her older brother, Trace Ball, is a past STEM Scholar of the Year,” said Harambee Science Teacher Tariq Al-Nasir, who is also the founder of Harambee’s successful STEMnasium Learning Academy. “I am proud of all my students. Their dedication to this program is phenomenal, and they come to class every Saturday, including holiday breaks.”

Bootstrapping has many definitions. According to several technology resources, in computers, pressing a bootstrap button causes a hardwired program to read a bootstrap program from an input unit. The computer would then execute the bootstrap program, which caused it to read more program instructions. It became a self-sustaining process that proceeded without external help from manually entered instructions. In complex applications – such as the game Ball created – Bootstrapping allows for the input and implementation of a string of several complex commands. The exact incarnation of Bootstrap that Ball used was a standards-based curriculum and programming environment supported by the Foundation for the Advancement of Technology in Education. This specific program teaches students to program their own videogames and applications using purely algebraic and geometric concepts.

Harambee was one of Philadelphia's first charter schools, and has become an important and widely recognized part of the city's system of education. Since its founding nearly two decades ago by late educator Baba Skief, Harambee has been a frontrunner in community service and development. The charter school has served as a local source for visual and performing arts and has been identified as a leader in education and training programs. Harambee has earned the support of the West Philadelphia community and the recognition of state and local officials for outstanding service.

Harambee has a strong STEM-related coursework and afterschool programming. The STEMnasium Learning Academy is but one of those resources, and that program, which runs on Saturdays, is in the midst of teaching its students Mandarin Chinese, with the idea that the students will complete several business transactions in Chinatown by speaking in the native language of many of the shopkeepers there.

The Saturday classwork is a 48-week program, not including an additional eight weeks in the summer. The collaboration between Harambee and the STEMNASIUM allows any student enrolled in a Philadelphia public school to partake in the class; the program is built for 60-plus students, and the roughly 50 that are enrolled in the program are dedicated, Al-Nassir said.

“The kids love it. As an example, over the Thanksgiving holiday break, with Black Friday and all, the kids were off from school and could do whatever it is that kids do when they are home, but we had students who showed up,” Al-Nassir said. “They dedicated themselves to showing up on that Saturday. What we accomplished on that Saturday was different than what we accomplished on other Saturdays, but I was very impressed that the parents bought into the fact that we can’t take a vacation, not when we’re trying to reach people on a global level.”

The Personification of Science | The Scientific Method Brought To Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR3vwjXCFnE

http://www.amazon.com/Science-Sciences/dp/0557728711
Each person, place, and thing in this allegorical story is a principle which personifies and symbolizes an aspect of the Scientific Method and Mathematic method (called the S.O.S.A.S.I.S.) as described in the book "The Science of Sciences and the Science in Sciences" by African Creation Energy.
ISBN-10: 0557728711
ISBN-13: 978-0557728718
http://www.africancreationenergy.com/

African Scribes

 

The tradition of the Scribe, scriptor, programmer, etc.

Pyramid Builder - Osiadan Borebore Oboadee

 

Build Pyramids, Period We Masters

Heru vs the Terminator

 In Egyptian Cosmology, the deity Heru was born by way of technology.  Later in a battle against his Uncle Set, he lost his left eye in the battle

Prophessor A.C.E. vs Dr. Manhattan

Prophessor A.C.E. (African Creation Energy)

Manifesting from the sub-atomic world of the electron into a Human form, Prophessor A.C.E. has all the Scientists on the run.

The African Origin of Robotics

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/khnum-ptah-to-computer-the-african-initialization-of-computer-science/13474996
The African Origin of Robotics can be traced back to Pre-dynastic Ancient Nile Valley culture.  The body of a deceased person would be cremated and the ashes would be used to make a statue.  The statue was then "animated" or "brought to life" in a ritualistic ceremony called the "Opening of the Mouth Ceremony".  The practice of creating and animating or "bringing to life" statues as part of traditional African Animist culture spread throughout the African continent and also spread to the rest of the World.
In Traditional African Animist culture, these statues are created to house energies and perform certain tasks, which is synonymous to Robotics.  There African Robots have been called by a Variety of names including: "Magic Idols", Juju, Fetishes, Talisman, Voodoo Dolls, Hoodoo Poppets, N'Kisi, Obo, Obia, Ouangas, and Abosam just to name a few...

The deity KHNUM, also known as Khonvoum to the Bambuti people of Central Africa, is an African Creation deity of Robotics.
The African Animist tradition of Robotics has inspired new manifestations of the craft of African Robotics in fact and fiction.

For more information, check out the book "Khnum-Ptah to Computer: The African Initialization of Computer Science" available at http://africancreationenergy.com

This is part of the History of Robotics. These are the concepts which led to the development of modern Robotics, and Africa is indeed a part of that History. If we can study the History of Robotics, and Asian cultures can discuss their mythology and history with King Mu of Zhou, and European cultures can discuss their mythology and history with Talos, Pygmalion and Hero of Alexandria, then people of African descent should be able to discusses the History of Robotics by tying in African culture and mythology