A 23-year-old graduate of the Ladoke Akintola University of
Technology, LAUTECH, has been hailed for building a working camera and a Flying
Car from scratch.
Ayoola Olaoluwa, who graduated from the department of
Computer Science opened up about his
achievement and challenges.
“I initially wanted to study aeronautical engineering, but
it wasn’t available in any Nigerian university at the time, so I settled for
Computer Science which is somehow a branch of aeronautics," Olaoluwa said,
when asked why he chose to focus on aeronautics.
Olaoluwa, who aims to acquire a Masters Degree in
aeronautics someday, said his journey started
from building a shiny hyper realistic aero plane when he was 13 years
old.
“Everybody was awed by the plane I built”, he laughs in
recollection, "but it was not working. It couldn’t fly or even move and
they did not even know.”
“Making things has always been something I did as a
pastime,” he adds, “the way other people engage themselves in their spare time,
I want to create things. It is more like a hobby for me.”
Speaking about his drones, Olaoluwa said, "Drones are
not new, and I did not invent them, you can call them innovations, I might
agree to that but they are more like tweaked prototypes of already existing
technology.”
According to Ayoola, what started out as a flaw turned into
the best hybrids there is. Imagine having a car that can fly and is not anyway
as expensive as any known flying machine.
The Flying Car can also go above 300 meters in the air as
its flying technology is similar to the drone. It is just a hybrid of a
functional motor engine that moves the tires and a flying engine.
Speaking more about how he got his ideas, he said, “most of
the things I know, I learnt myself. Reading up online, trying and failing till
something is achieved. I wish there was an educational structure for people
passionate about innovative pursuits to gain hands-on knowledge in those
areas.”
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