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Enclosures, brackets, jigs, custom parts. Free for members, available to everyone else.
University of Nigeria, Nsukka · Enugu State
South-East Nigeria's largest student hardware tech community.
Students here stop reading about hardware and start building it. Embedded systems, robotics, IoT and blockchain devices — soldered, coded and deployed from our lab in Nsukka.
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Africa's Hardware Revolution — From Spark to Ignition. Open to every student, no fee.
01 Modern equipment for hardware tech
Ideas do not stay on paper here
A community is only as good as the machines in the room. Design a part on Monday, hold it on Tuesday — instead of waiting weeks on an import.
Our 3D printer running in the lab at UNN Nsukka.
A bench that is actually equipped
Soldering stations, measurement gear, dev boards, a component library. Your project stalls on your thinking, not your budget.
Prototype to product
Print, test, revise, print again. Fast iteration is the difference between a school project and a product.
02 Free bootcamp · open to everyone at UNN
Africa's Hardware Revolution
From Spark to Ignition
Free. Open to every UNN student. No fee, no experience, no particular course. Bring curiosity; we supply the bench, the boards and the people.
A Mega Hardware Conference this November, followed by 3 weeks of intensive practical hardware bootcamp and a hackathon.
Other South-East campuses next — one per state.
November 2026
Completely free
Students & individuals welcome
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Hardware supplied
Robotics
Embedded Systems
Internet of Things
PCB Design
CAD
IoT-Blockchain
IoT UI/UX
IoT Web Development
Edge AI
3D Printing
Fabrication
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Projects in the portfolio
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Curriculum modules
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Skill tiers, foundation to capstone
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Hardware lab at UNN Nsukka
03 What we do
A community, a school, and a workshop — in one place
Africa imports the technology it depends on. The capacity to build it is already here — it has just never been trained or equipped. That is the gap we close.
We train
Nineteen modules, Ohm's law to FPGA design. Taught with a board in front of you, not slides.
We build
Real prototypes from week one. Fourteen systems on the bench so far.
We incubate
Capstones that prove themselves become products. We help with IP, pitches and pilot users.
We manufacture
The long game: hardware designed and assembled in Enugu, not imported and repaired.
04 Selected work
Hardware our members have actually shipped
Not renders. Boards populated, enclosures printed, firmware flashed, systems run outside the lab.
Completed
CNG Protect
A smart IoT-blockchain device that monitors compressed-natural-gas cylinders — pressure, integrity and custody — signed on the device and verifiable on chain. Now a company of its own.
IoTBlockchainSafety
Completed
Joint-Agent IDE
An autonomous agent for embedded development — it writes firmware, compiles, debugs and flashes real hardware from one browser tab. Spun out of this lab into its own product.
SoftwareEmbeddedAI Agent
Completed
Line Following Robot
The classic controls exercise done properly — sensor array, tuned PID loop, and a chassis the team built in-house. Press play to watch it track the line.
VideoRoboticsControlPID
Completed
Smart Solar Power Measurement System
Measures and logs output across up to six solar panels at once, comparing passive fins, forced air and water cooling on a live rooftop deployment.
EnergyTelemetrySensors
Completed
Bluetooth Six-Wheel Terrain Climber
A six-wheel rover driven over Bluetooth, built to keep traction and stay level on the broken ground around campus.
RoboticsMechanicalControl
Completed
Smart Walking Stick for the Blind
Ultrasonic ranging with haptic and audible feedback, so a user feels an obstacle before they reach it. Field-tested on open ground.
Assistive TechSensors
05 The curriculum
Nineteen modules, five tiers, one straight line
Most people stall because nobody laid the path out in order. Ours runs from your first resistor to CPU architecture — ending in a capstone that has to work in front of real users.
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Foundational Knowledge
4 modules · Core principles — the vocabulary and habits everything else is built on. -
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Intermediate Skills
5 modules · Practical application — where members start shipping working hardware. -
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Advanced Topics
8 modules · Specialised knowledge — the work that separates a hobbyist from an engineer. -
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CAD and Design Integration
2 modules · Turning a breadboard into something you can hold, mount and manufacture. -
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Capstone Projects
4 modules · Real builds, real deadlines, real users.
07 The community
You will not be building alone
The hardest part of hardware is the hour where nothing works and you have no idea why. A community is what gets you through it.
- Weekly build nights — open lab, real benches, people to ask.
- Cohort bootcamps — structured, intensive, and free to members.
- Mentorship — paired with someone two steps ahead of you, not twenty.
- A component library — borrow the sensor instead of buying it.
- Demo days — show the thing you built to people who understand it.
08 Where this is going
Made in Enugu
Not a better robotics club. Indigenous capability — electronics, vehicles and smart systems designed here, for African roads, climate and culture.
Consumer electronics
Assembly lines staffed by engineers we trained.
Vehicles & mobility
Drivetrains and controls for the roads we actually drive on.
Aerospace & heavy systems
The far end of the roadmap — and why the curriculum goes so deep.
Illustrative concepts — these show the direction of the roadmap, not facilities currently in operation.
09 Portfolio companies
What comes out the other end
Capstones become products. Products become companies. These two came out of this lab.
Joint-Agent IDE
An autonomous agent for embedded development — writes firmware, compiles, debugs and flashes real hardware from the browser.
jointagentide.com
CNG Protect
Smart IoT-blockchain monitoring for compressed-natural-gas cylinders — pressure, integrity and custody, verifiable on chain.
cngprotect.com
10 Partners & sponsors
Become a sponsor
It opens with the biggest hardware technology conference in South-East Nigeria — 800+ attendees, speakers from across Nigeria and around the world — then three weeks of bootcamp and a hackathon. Help us build it.
800+ attendees
Students, makers and early-career engineers from across the South-East, in one room.
Speakers worldwide
Practitioners from Nigeria and worldwide, on hardware they actually shipped.
Where your support goes
Venue, components, printing, speaker travel — and free seats for students who could not otherwise come.
What you get
Branding across the event and this site, a stand on the floor, first access to the people you want to hire.
This space is for your logo
Equipment, component budgets, speaker travel, internships or funding. Tell us what you have in mind and we will send the deck.
Open intake
Our tomorrow is indeed here.
Bring curiosity. We supply the bench, the boards and the people.