The Afrorack name was inspired by Eurorack which is the most popular commercial format of synthesizers. In a way, it is an antithesis to the Eurorack which is a relatively expensive format. As a child I was always curious about electronic equipment. I remember opening up my dad’s radio to figure out how it worked, I then discovered I couldn’t put it back together and spelt big trouble for me . Another time I opened up his black and white Sanyo television he bought in the 70s and I was shocked by the high voltage inside. At the time I didn’t know how hazardous 10,000 or so volts can be! Any way I survived to tell the tale. Later in high school I started reading about vacuum tubes and transistors in the encyclopedia books in the school library. Our school chapel did not have a P.A system for Sunday services so I rigged up a 3055 power transistor and a few other parts and made a crude amplifier. Of course the sound was less than optimum, I barely understood how to properly bias transistors. Non the less, my contraption worked and this excited me so much.This was the beginning of my quest to build gadgets. So many years later I discovered people like Bob Moog and Buchla and the work that they had done to develop early analog synthesizers. Their walls of several cabinets of electronic gadgets making sounds fascinated me. I read everything I could find about these fascinating instruments, also read about iconic pieces of gear like the Roland 808, 909 drum machines and how they led to the creation of new genres like house and techno. Unfortunately, I had never seen any of this equipment in Uganda, neither could I afford it. So I searched through the internet and found schematics of some of this old equipment and this led me to a rabbit hole of building an enormous amount of synth modules. Some how through social media, people got to discover my work and that is when Afrorack was birthed.