Young Nigerian creates device to track deforrestation

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A young robotics developer in Nigeria has come up with a way to prevent illegal deforestation by tracking the orientation of trees. The Reforest AI device uses an app that signals the exact locations where forests are being stripped.

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00:00So this is Reforest AI, a device I built to track deforestation.

00:10I built it to track if a tree is being cut down currently or not, as trees are huge supporters

00:17of the ecosystem.

00:21What it does is that it tracks the orientation and the angles of trees using two sensors

00:25that are inside there.

00:26It also tracks location of where a tree currently is, so if it's being cut down at the moment,

00:33we can know where the tree is in particular.

00:42So what inspired my innovations is my undying passion to live my dream as a young child.

00:53I thought about a ton of things I could do, some things I saw on TV, and I just wanted

00:59to recreate.

01:00But as I grew older, I thought of functionalities I could add to them to make them practical

01:05in real life.

01:13Sourcing my materials.

01:15Luckily there's a local vendor around my area where I can get electrical components, and

01:19as for parts I really can't get from shops, I recycle to get things done.

01:26Hardware, there's a major challenge, which is getting money to get electrical components,

01:33and that's a major challenge for me.

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