Hardware companies have three tasks: build, prove, go offshore
Oct 17, 2022
Lessons Learnt & Q&A
Nick Allen, as told to Hardware Things By August of 2021, Savant had disbursed $1.22 million in investments in the previous 12 months. A small fund
Want to build hardware for agriculture? Get supply chain resilient.
Aug 29, 2022
Longform
Chuma Asuzu This piece is part of No Tracking, a zine by Hardware Things. Get a copy.Size is both a feature and a constraint of agriculture; the
Five years, one paying customer: building for the informal sector
Mar 15, 2022
Lessons Learnt & Q&A
Ted Boulou, as told to Hardware Things In 2012, Ted Boulou moved to Dakar, Senegal to work on rural electrification projects across Francophone West
Giving African beekeepers a digital upgrade
Dec 23, 2021
Longform
Jessica Pothering Abiye Tadeos had no experience in beekeeping before launching Anabi, a startup developing smart devices for Ethiopia’s honey
The TECNO Playbook: How to sell smartphones fast in Kenya
Oct 1, 2021
Longform
Alexandria Sahai Williams It’s a Friday afternoon in Nairobi, and Luthuli Avenue is already alive. Though the avenue only occupies a few square
Drones from scraps
Sep 29, 2021
Solutions Reporting
Charles Pensulo Earlier this year, Bester Kalombo, a clinician at the remote Lisungwi Community Hospital in Neno District, Southern Malawi observed
How a drone engineer is helping to build social enterprise in Sudan
Sep 14, 2021
Maker Story
Jessica Pothering They say you learn more from failure than from success. Sudanese hardware entrepreneur Hatim Hassan is working to ensure that
Made in Egypt
Aug 16, 2021
Solutions Reporting
Rawnaa Al-Masry Since its establishment in 2005, the Information Technology and Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) under the Ministry of
The Prize Economy
Jul 7, 2021
Longform
Chuma Asuzu At 10:36pm on Tuesday, April 12, 2016, my phone buzzed with a new notification. It was an email from the American Society of Mechanical
Cape Town makes the world's small satellites
Jun 15, 2021
Longform
David Oni This story was co-published with Space in Africa. On a sunny day in November 2013, the staff and students of the French South African
Jirogasy’s solar computers power offgrid schools in Madagascar
May 3, 2021
Solutions Reporting
Chuma Asuzu In many respects, Madagascar is an isolated country. Located off the East African coast in the Indian Ocean, it is the world’s
The new jua kali
Apr 29, 2021
Solutions Reporting
Mercy Adhiambo Inside a small workshop in Nairobi’s Industrial Area, Caroline Barongo, 24, is covered in sparks of yellow flames. She holds tightly
Grit Was Not Enough
Feb 15, 2021
Lessons Learnt
David Adebiyi In September 2016, I was invited for a technical assessment at GRIT Systems as part of the hiring process for a hardware engineering
A sip of Rwanda
Nov 30, 2020
Longform
Chuma Asuzu Every morning, and particularly during this global pandemic, I get out of bed still sleepy and take a walk to the kitchen. I pour some
Spending less on electricity, saving the planet
Nov 15, 2019
Company Spotlight
A geyser is a vent in the Earth’s surface that periodically ejects a column of hot water and steam. And while that’s the definition you will see if
Data analytics for PAYGo Solar
Oct 15, 2019
Company Spotlight
Buvuma Island is on Lake Victoria, off the mainland of Uganda and about 77km away from Uganda’s capital of Kampala. For a snapshot into how remote
Robots to assist, not replace
Sep 15, 2019
Company Spotlight
Last year, for the first time, a robotics company in Africa raised US$1.6m in venture funding. When this raise was reported, most people outside
The right medication at the right temperature
Aug 15, 2019
Company Spotlight
Without good storage, food products go bad much quicker than anyone would like. Mostly, we think about this in the home when we store food in the
Building technology together
Jul 15, 2019
Communities
Communities are a lot of work, but in an environment where a hardware entrepreneur can not buy tools to make products, having access to common tools
Get a box, rent power
Jun 15, 2019
Company Spotlight
Africa’s potential to harness solar power is well documented, but with the purchasing power of its citizens significantly lower than the rest of the
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