I’m leaving on Jan 7th with Engineers Without Borders for a project assesment trip to the Maseno hospital located in Kisumu, Kenya.  The purpose of the trip will be to gather details that we need to plan renovations that will be built this summer.

I’m pretty excited as I have never been anywhere outside N. America. And I am very interested in doing work in less-developed regions of the world especially related to sustainable design.  Since I had such a great experience using kickstarter to raise money for BBgum Fusion, I decided to give it a shot to help cover some of the travel costs.  Most of the prizes will be gathered either in Nairobi or around the hospital itself so that’s pretty cool.  I always like exploring markets for handmade goodies.

If you didn’t know, I was trying to raise 800 dollars using a very cool site (Kickstarter) to help me build a fusion reactor inside of a bubblegum machine.  And…WE MADE OUR FUNDING GOAL!!

So now starts the fun part of the project. Trying to locate all the necessary parts.  I think most of the parts are going to be pretty easy to locate. The only piece I sense will be a real trouble is the globe.  I’ve emailed 3 precision glass fabricators and not one will give me an estimate of the pressure or voltage their product can withstand. But I am not worried, even if I have to blow my own, I will find a globe that can contain fusion.

Fusion Promo Rough Draft from Jacob Shiach on Vimeo.