The Re-Build Capsule

Re-Build is an African hardware innovation hub building hardware systems and the talent to sustain impact-focused hardware development.

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Allow us a little reintroduction.

Welcome to The Re-Build Capsule. An ongoing record of what we’re building, what we’re testing, and what we’re learning.

You’ll find product launches, prototypes, workshop moments, field stories, and the thinking behind the systems we build.

Some stories are shared here. The full recap arrives at the start of each month in The Capsule newsletter.

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Most of what happens inside Re-Build never show up on our social media.

The Capsule is where we share those stories.

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These product picks from The Professor, @cstananigbogu are not connected by industry, aesthetics, or even technology.

One helps farmers. One helps builders. One helps people learn.

What connects them is that each product was built around a specific need and designed to make something possible for the person using it.

These are the products we help you build at Re-Build.

#ReBuildCapsule #ProductsWeFindAwesome

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This week, The Connector, Muhammad, shares a few products that he cannot stop thinking about, from cameras to wearable and spatial computing technologies.

Some products stay interesting because they push technical performance forward while still feeling portable, lightweight, and usable in everyday environments.

What products do YOU find interesting?

#ReBuild #ProductsWeFindAwesome #ProductsOfTheWeek #TheRBCapsule

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Introducing LiteClip for Lighted Impact Foundation

A lamp designed with mobile workers and traders at its centre. From night vendors to security personnel and even households in low-light settings, it is designed to clips onto various surfaces quickly and keeps lighting flexible.

#ReBuildInc #LiteClip #HardwareDesign #EnergyInfrastructure #ProductDevelopment

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Products our Director of Programmes, Sidikat keeps coming back to. Built around focus, simplicity, and doing less better.

Have you ever used any of these products? Let us know in the comments!

#ReBuild #ProductsWeFindAwesome #DesignCulture #ProductDesign

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Some Products our Dir. of Opportunities and Growth, Giselle keeps coming back to lately. Useful. Thoughtful. Easy to live with and fun!

Sometimes the best-designed things are simply the ones that fit naturally into how people already live.

#ReBuildInc #ProductsWeFindAwesome #DesignSolveRepeat

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Introducing Ankor for Lighted Impact Foundation

Designed for fisherfolk and outdoor workers who need stable lighting after dark, Ankor is a clamp lamp built for movement, visibility, and work on the water.

#ReBuildInc #Ankor #HardwareDesign #EnergyInfrastructure #ProductDevelopment

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This week, we’re supporting @HultPrizeinGhana.

Re-Build is proud to be a sponsor of this year’s summit, where innovators come together to build and pitch solutions that matter.
We’re especially interested in what comes after the idea, happy to help strong concepts become real, working products and systems.

Looking forward to seeing what ideas emerge

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Over the next eight months. Across three phases.

The Residents go from problem to prototype, prototype to manufacturing and manufacturing to deployment.

The result is not a pitch deck.

It is a solution that has been tested against real use, built for the environment it will actually run in, and designed to be maintained long after the programme ends.

Learn more https://t.co/3hl5IWcicF

Design. Solve. Repeat.

#ReBuildInc #TheForge #DesignSolveRepeat #EngineeringAfrica #InfrastructureDesign

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Over the next eight months. Across three phases.

The Residents go from problem to prototype, prototype to manufacturing and manufacturing to deployment.

The result is not a pitch deck.

It is a solution that has been tested against real use, built for the environment it will actually run in, and designed to be maintained long after the programme ends.

Learn more https://t.co/3hl5IWcicF

Design. Solve. Repeat.

#ReBuildInc #TheForge #DesignSolveRepeat #EngineeringAfrica #InfrastructureDesign

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Building changes how you think about time.

Constraints define what matters. Decisions have to be made. Iteration is what turns early versions into products that works beyond the idea.

That is the work. You design, you solve, and you keep going until it works.

#ReBuildInc #TheForge #DesignSolveRepeat #EngineeringAfrica #HardwareStartups

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Nothing works the first time.

Iteration is not a setback. It is the process.

#ReBuildInc #DesignSolveRepeat #FieldEngineering #SystemsEngineering #EngineeringAfrica

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Building is decisions under constraint.

Time, resources, technical limits. None of it is ideal.

That's where the real work happens.

#ReBuildInc #DesignSolveRepeat #FieldEngineering #SystemsEngineering #EngineeringAfrica

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Meet Forge Resident Blossom Eromosele, building within the matter pillar.

Blossom is working on AllSpace, a solution addressing housing challenges for displaced and underserved communities.
Nigeria faces both a growing housing deficit and increasing volumes of unused recyclable materials.

At the same time, many people continue to live without stable shelter. AllSpace explores how modular housing systems built from recycled materials can provide durable and adaptable living spaces.

At the Forge, the focus is on designing shelter systems that can be deployed for communities without access to permanent housing.

#ReBuildInc #TheForge #DesignSolveRepeat #MaterialScience #LifecycleEngineering #EngineeringAfrica

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Meet Forge Resident Blossom Eromosele, building within the matter pillar.

Blossom is working on AllSpace, a solution addressing housing challenges for displaced and underserved communities.
Nigeria faces both a growing housing deficit and increasing volumes of unused recyclable materials.

At the same time, many people continue to live without stable shelter. AllSpace explores how modular housing systems built from recycled materials can provide durable and adaptable living spaces.

At the Forge, the focus is on designing shelter systems that can be deployed for communities without access to permanent housing.

#ReBuildInc #TheForge #DesignSolveRepeat #MaterialScience #LifecycleEngineering #EngineeringAfrica