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Category Archives: Manufacturing
Introducing BRCK Labs
October 16th, 2019 by Kurt Unger
BRCK has always been committed to innovating in emerging markets. Regardless of what we’ve accomplished in the past, we aren’t going to be complacent about the future. And BRCK Labs is how we plan on ensuring that. At BRCK, we understand that the technology paradigms that work in other parts of the world do not necessarily […]
Read more2016: The Year at BRCK
January 2nd, 2017 by Erik Hersman
2016 proved to be a busy year at BRCK, after we announced our funding round. We started off by getting into our new office, upgrading from the small room we’d used for the previous two years. There was a blur of events, with some of us speaking at WEF, TED, ITU, and many others. A […]
Read moreCreating World Class Hardware in Kenya
May 7th, 2016 by Kurt Unger
I mentioned BRCK’s “You can do hard things” slogan at the beginning of the Mt Kenya posts. And it has come up a number of times in other BRCK posts as well. I am going to do my best to relate some of the unique difficulties that we faced over the last few months on […]
Read moreAnnouncement: Collaboration with Kenyatta University for Digital Literacy
August 7th, 2015 by Juliana Rotich
With the recently announced learning division of BRCK Inc led by Nivi Mukherjee, comes this exciting news about a major agreement signed between BRCK Inc and the venerable Kenyatta University. Do see the announcement on the Kenyatta University website too. Kenyatta University, BRCK sign digital literacy MoU Nairobi, 7 August 2015 –Kenyatta University, a leading […]
Read moreBRCK at Maker Faire Africa: From Prototype to Production
December 6th, 2014 by Erik Hersman
We’ve been excited to show up at Maker Faire Africa (old site) in Johannesburg for quite a few months, so actually being there yesterday was a big deal for us. Especially as we had driven 4,400km to be here and it was our primary goal for the journey. The BRCK table certainly drew our fair […]
Read moreShipping BRCKs!
July 7th, 2014 by Erik Hersman
“Shipping BRCKs”, if you say that title out loud, and quickly enough, you’ll know how we feel just about now… 🙂 First shipments: July 17th That date above is the most important thing that everyone wants to know. Next week we’ll test the BRCK production line, and ship out the first batch of devices. Finally. […]
Read moreProblems, Perseverance, and Patience
May 15th, 2014 by Philip Walton
Building BRCK – Assembly from BRCK on Vimeo. [Some shots from the factory, building BRCK, this week.] I know that we weren’t naïve in the early days of BRCK thinking that it would be easy to build an amazing hardware device in Kenya. We couldn’t have been. We aren’t rookies. This isn’t our first rodeo […]
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