Thoughts and write-ups on Edge AI, IoT, embedded systems, and the leadership lessons learned building real-world solutions.
How our team built Indimi, an AI-powered decision-making tool for public service delivery, and won the Design Track (plus a $12,000 prize package) at Zimbabwe's 2026 National AI for Impact Challenge.
How a youth-led initiative turned local gaming centers into digital literacy and career-readiness hubs for underserved young adults in disaster-affected regions, funded through the U.S. Department of State SUSI Global Student Leaders Program.
Notes from building Yambiro: a dual-gateway ESP32 predictive-maintenance system that fuses two BLE sensors, runs a 99.3%-accurate classifier on-device, and turns a fault into an operator decision in under three seconds, with no dependence on a stable internet connection.
How four of us from Southern Africa built Ithute AI in 72 hours and took first place, along with a surprise $12k from Meta, at the Llama 3.1 Impact Hackathon in Kigali.
A look at the small but meaningful feature that made people trust Gwenya: translating raw energy readings into fair, transparent money, down to the cent, in ZiG and USD.
On the sidelines of the 10th UNESCO Africa Engineering Week in Luanda, Angola, I pitched Hextech at an entrepreneurship bootcamp for early-career engineers, and watched the continent's engineering institutions negotiate the resolutions that will shape it.