AL ITTIHAD – a UAE national in his thirties, Abdullah Ahmed Al Shehi, from Ras Al Khaimah, who is a seconded employee in the Emirates Identity Authority, Ras Al Khaimah Registration Center, was able to invent several technical and electronic devices using consumed household equipment and raw materials. It was basically his passion for technology that prompted him to explore every piece of any technological device to come out with new and updated ideas. As a result, Al Shehi invented among many others a device to detect earthquakes, a device to know the movement and direction of the winds and a device to detect rains and humidity.
Holder of a high school certificate, Abdullah, who attended a training course in electronics in the United States, said his passion for these wires and electronic chips started when he was 15 years old. Armed with curiosity about how this technology started, ideas began gradually to grow in his mind, particularly with respect of how to repair electronic appliances. When he was 20 years old, he was able – out of his passion and curiosity – to repair a Sakhr computer, which was widespread in the early 1990s, by connecting two negative and positive pieces inside the machine.
Though sophisticated, these machines are based on simple and uncomplicated technologies, as everybody knows. At this point, he began to believe in himself and in his capability to launch ideas out of these materials. He began to reinstall completely dismantled parts of a radio and succeeded in repairing it. This was followed by several inventions including a device to monitor houses, a warning device, among others.
As far as the nature of work and structure of aerial devices are concerned, Abdullah said all these devices were invented from used and consumed household tools and equipment and children’s playthings. In the beginning, he used to look around the tools he had and then think considerably about how to assemble them and make something out of them. He noted that he sometimes faced a hard situation when part of the body was missing, adding that this used sometimes to delay him but the idea ultimately would turn into reality.
He explained that the device for detecting the movement and direction of the winds, which took one month to complete, consisted of a simple body made from 2 buoy covers, which ran smoothly with the movement of winds, a machine made from a kitchen fan and an aluminium rod, all tied by ordinary low consumption keys, and a box with illumination through which the speed and direction of the winds were detected.
The device for detecting earthquakes, on the other hand, was an accurate reader of the movement of the earth which was tested a few months ago and proved to be efficient despite the simple tools used in it. The model of the device consisted of computer table shelves, 2 consumed pieces of children’s plaything machine and light paper on which the movement of the earth was recorded with an aluminium pen. The model was connected to an overhead device invented from kitchen utensils.
Al Shehi pointed out that in addition to finding the tools required for his inventions, he faced the problems and difficulties of how to protect the sensitive aerial devices from external conditions.
Al Shehi wished he would be able to invent a camera-provided flying device to detect incidents from above. He also wished to complete his study in this field and find enough time, considering that he is a civil servant and father of five children. Besides, he wished to be able to have a workshop for his ideas and inventions, noting that he learnt from each invention he made that discoveries and inventions, no matter how simple they were, were an embodiment of one’s wish and a confirmation of one’s self.
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