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These Nigerian students built a machine that turns food waste into compost

It’s powered by an Arduino single-board microcontroller coded with open-source software. The creators are all students at a Lagos technical college. They won an Innovation Challenge at Destiny Trust’s Kids Innovation Hub which teaches coding and robotics to children.

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