Research budget in Ethiopia is extremely limited, and many of my colleagues are not involved in research due to that. The Water Resources Research Centre organized a seminar on conducting low-cost research at December 4, 2023. I presented from own experience on ‘How to collect +25,000 hours of data and create five scientific articles with almost no budget’. This included sharing my work on low-cost sensor development and conducting research with students. After presenting my experiences, we had an interactive session with the twenty attendants on what opportunities and challenges there are for low-cost research.