The next step for the W.Afate Man Roland Parts is participation in NASA's International Space Apps Challenge, a competition for technology designed to get mankind to Mars. Afate's entry is part of a mixed Togolese-French team that is offering proof-of-concept proposals for developing custom-fabricated mechanical equipment parts. In his proposal, Afate writes that his printer model can allow 3-D printers to be created in any environment using already-existing equipment, and that “rather than send its computing waste to the poor countries, why the West would not send them on Mars?”
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