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Team of the Day: Kubit Micro-Drone by Kubit, Redeemer's University. A microdrone kit and guided platform for makers and ...
30/10/2026

Team of the Day: Kubit Micro-Drone by Kubit, Redeemer's University. A microdrone kit and guided platform for makers and clubs to build, program and fly their own drone. Would you use it? Tell them: forge.microscale.net/build-nigeria/teams/kubit-micro-drone-kubit

Team of the Day: Gas Sentinel by Rho, Babcock University. It tracks your cooking gas, predicts how long it will last, an...
29/10/2026

Team of the Day: Gas Sentinel by Rho, Babcock University. It tracks your cooking gas, predicts how long it will last, and alerts you before it runs out. Would you use it? Tell them: forge.microscale.net/build-nigeria/teams/gas-sentinel-rho

28/10/2026

Most of what goes wrong in a first hardware build is not the code. It is power.

Live #6 of Build Nigeria 2026: the battery rule and why packs built from loose cells are not allowed, what a battery management board does, charging while a device runs, mains, relays and stop buttons, fusing high current, and a five-step first power-up.

35 teams are building now. Milestone 1, first power-on, is due Sunday 8 November. forge.microscale.net/build-nigeria/teams

Team of the Day: Poultry AirGuard by Team Agro-IoT, University of Lagos. It watches ammonia in poultry houses and starts...
28/10/2026

Team of the Day: Poultry AirGuard by Team Agro-IoT, University of Lagos. It watches ammonia in poultry houses and starts the air cleaning when levels turn harmful. Would you use it? Tell them: forge.microscale.net/build-nigeria/teams/poultry-airguard-team-agro-iot

Team of the Day: PoultryGuard, by team Ebenezer, Federal University of Technology, Akure. It watches a poultry flock's a...
27/10/2026

Team of the Day: PoultryGuard, by team Ebenezer, Federal University of Technology, Akure. It watches a poultry flock's activity and brooder temperature, and warns the farmer before birds weaken. Keep poultry? Tell them if you'd use it: forge.microscale.net/build-nigeria/teams/poultryguard-ebenezer

26/10/2026

Build Nigeria 2026 starts today. 35 teams from 21 universities, polytechnics and colleges, each building one product for a real buyer, for six weeks.

Every team has a public page. If one of them is building something you would use, tell them. forge.microscale.net/build-nigeria/teams

25/10/2026

35 teams from 21 universities, polytechnics and colleges are building in Build Nigeria 2026. Approvals are final.

University of Lagos: 5
University of Benin: 4

Two teams each: Redeemer's, Bayero University Kano, University of Jos, FUT Minna, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Air Force Institute of Technology, FUT Owerri.

One team each from Lead City, Rivers State, NACEST, FUT Akure, OAU, LASU, BOUESTI, Babcock, Veritas, Nigerian Army University Biu, Landmark and FUOYE.

Six weeks, one product each, a real buyer for every one. The build starts on Monday.

forge.microscale.net/build-nigeria/teams

23/10/2026

30 teams from 19 universities, polytechnics and colleges are approved to build in Build Nigeria 2026 so far. Each one is building a product for a named buyer.

Campuses with the most approved teams:

University of Lagos: 4
University of Benin: 4
Bayero University Kano: 2
Federal University of Technology, Minna: 2
Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka: 2
Air Force Institute of Technology, Kaduna: 2
Federal University of Technology, Owerri: 2

Plus one team each from Lead City, Rivers State, NACEST, FUT Akure, OAU, Jos, LASU, Redeemer's, BOUESTI, Babcock, Landmark and FUOYE.

Approvals are final tomorrow, and the build starts on Monday. From Saturday, see what every team is building: forge.microscale.net/build-nigeria/teams

21/10/2026

We have read 39 Build Plans for Build Nigeria 2026. 20 are approved, 18 went back to be fixed.

None went back for being too ambitious. They went back because something was missing: a buyer with a name, a block diagram, a parts list with prices, or a safety answer that names a person.

The strongest plans had one thing in common. The team had already spoken to the person with the problem, and knew a detail only someone who asked would know.

On Saturday, every approved team gets a public page where anyone can see what they are building and press "I'd use this". If one of them solves a problem you have, tell them.

1st prize is a ₦950,000 Creality SparkX i7 Combo. To compete for prizes, a team needs ₦25,000 of parts from Microscale by 1 November; past purchases count. forge.microscale.net/build-nigeria/teams

A soil-moisture reading means nothing to a farmer until it saves something she can count.Ask what she loses today, how o...
20/10/2026

A soil-moisture reading means nothing to a farmer until it saves something she can count.

Ask what she loses today, how often, and in what unit: birds, seedlings, bags of grain. Then build to stop that loss, and show her the number.

Three things that work in the field:

1. Sealed and shaded. Sun and rain kill boards.
2. Water near power? Keep it low-voltage.
3. Leave it at the farm for days, not hours.

Build Nigeria 2026: the build starts Monday 26 October. From Saturday, see what every approved team is building: forge.microscale.net/build-nigeria/teams

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