[personlurking]

Never thought I'd see the word Gambiarra at the top of HN. By the way, Portugal has a word with a bit of a similar meaning (https://i.imgur.com/7YHjJHs.jpg)

For anyone interested in how Cubans do it, I recommend this 8 min video from Motherboard (it has subtitles):

> In 1991, Cuba's economy began to implode. "The Special Period in the Time of Peace" was the government's euphemism for what was a culmination of 30 years worth of isolation. It began in the 60s, with engineers leaving Cuba for America. Ernesto Oroza, a designer and artist, studied the innovations created during this period. He found that the general population had created homespun, Frankenstein-like machines for their survival, made from everyday objects. Oroza began to collect these machines, and would later contextualize it as "art" in a movement he dubbed "Technological Disobedience."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-XS4aueDUg

[rasz]

Mighty Car Mods did 'THE CARS OF CUBA' Special

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJPqe1baowA

they got paid to do fast and furious promotion, but instead concentrated on Cuban ingenuity when it comes to fixing cars without replacement parts. What you see in the episode (30-50 year old cars held together with ducttape) is not that far off from what was the norm in Eastern bloc under Russian occupation.