Hardware Things: Lessons from Scaling Solar Zambia
Hope you’re doing well, compliments of the season! Over the last few months, I've come to the realization that I can't keep up with the Hardware Things...
Hardware Things: Some thoughts on mobility
Hope you’re doing well. Later this month, I'll be attending the International Conference on Engineering Design presenting a paper. If you're going to be...
Hardware Things: For the love of digital fabrication
Hello there, I'm Bukunmi Oyedapo. I specialize in digital fabrication, where I provide support services to woodwork businesses, and design and construction...
Hardware Things: Introducing Super Display
Hope you’re doing well. It's officially Q2, which is around the time I stop saying 'Happy New Year.' Last month's Community Chat with Kayode Alade was...
Hardware Things: What does decentralized manufacturing look like?
Hope you’re doing well. The last few weeks have been very busy! I’ve been running a Kickstarter campaign for one of my products, helping the winning team...
Hardware Things: Partnerships for hardware development
Happy New Year! Hope you’re doing well. A new year is a great opportunity to sell Hardware Things a little bit, so if you enjoy the newsletter I’d like to...
Hardware Things: A special invitation
Hi there! Hope you’re doing well. I’m breaking protocol and sending an email mid-month, but with good reason. Tomorrow at 4.30pm GMT, we’ll be hosting Latiff...
Hardware Things: On Makerspaces
Hope you’re doing well. I haven’t done a good job of promoting the monthly Community Chat. Every month on the third Thursday, I invite someone working on...
Hardware Things: On Digital Agriculture
Hope you’re doing well. TK In case you missed it, here’s last month’s newsletter. First Things First New on hardwarethings.org Things I Enjoyed Reading...
Hardware Things: Build, Prove, Go Offshore
Hope you’re doing well. After writing The Prize Economy last year, I meant to write a follow-up piece focusing on venture capital firms on the continent who...
Hardware Things: Much ado about supply chain
Hope you’re doing well. At the beginning of every year, when I start planning the zine, I have a very faint idea of what is going to be in it. I commission...
Hardware Things: COVID and Cold Storage
Hope you’re doing well. As you may have noticed, there was no newsletter last month. I was dealing with COVID, my first time, and was going through a tough...
Hardware Things: Any luck for remote hardware work?
Hope you’re doing well. After months of work by the teams, I’d like to invite you to the Finals Ceremony of the Welcome To Nigeria Challenge holding tomorrow...
Hardware Things: Community building as a supply chain hedge
Hope you're doing well. This month's letter is a week late due to some personal circumstances, my apologies for that. I'm happy to share that the Welcome to...
Hardware Things: April is here
Hope you're doing well. While I've been a part of design competitions, The Welcome To Nigeria Challenge is the first time I've had to run one. Last week, we...
Hardware Things: Food processing tech in Burkina Faso
Hope you’re doing well. A couple of months ago, I tweaked the structure of the newsletter to have a Q&A with an entrepreneur. I received some positive...
Hardware Things: Some thoughts on battery recycling
Hope you're doing well. A few months ago, Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, a Nigerian linguist who's done some NLP work with Google, tweeted about landing in Lagos and seeing...
Hardware Things: The economics of electric motorcycles
Hope you're doing well. It's a new year, and I've got a few plans for Hardware Things that should be interesting. I shared a letter with with members...
Hardware Things: Five years, one paying customer
Hope you're doing well. This month I thought to do something a little different with the newsletter. Instead of the usual headings, I will share the...
Hardware Things: Textile Tech in Mauritius
Hope you're well. My apologies that this is coming a day late. I've become very interested in the construction and design of African musical instruments...