A 13-year-old in Freetown dug through rubbish bins for acid, soda and scrap metal, made a battery, then a generator, then a transmitter — DJ Focus's radio station ran on a rig built entirely from waste, and at 15 he was the youngest person ever invited to MIT's visiting practitioner program

A 13-year-old in Freetown dug through rubbish bins for acid, soda and scrap metal, made a battery, then a generator, then a transmitter — DJ Focus's radio station ran on a rig built entirely from waste, and at 15 he was the youngest person ever invited to MIT's visiting practitioner program

When power vanishes from your city for days at a time, a resourceful teenager doesn't wait for the grid to return—he builds a radio station from garbage.