Global What I know about bootstrapping hardware: Luke Iseman For years now the Lean methodology has been all the rage: bootstrap, get a viable minimum product, ship it without further ado, see the... Aline Mayard • 12 September, 2016 YCombinator Hardware Bootstrapping
Maghreb An IoT craze in Algeria? For the few Algerian startups commercializing Internet of Things (IoT) products, starting out was hard. Just two years ago, the mere... Aline Mayard • 14 August, 2016 makerspaces IoT algeria
Saudi Arabia Saudi startup's device to aid search for oil In an oil-based economy like Saudi Arabia, finding oil and gas is almost as important as finding water. The country’s efforts to... Bérénice Magistretti • 25 July, 2016 Core Echo Saudi Arabia Oil
Regional What I know about money and hardware: PK Gulati Hardware is in vogue. Where once you needed years, millions of dollars, and institutional support to launch a device or hardware... Rachel Williamson • 01 August, 2016 The Assembly hardware investing PK Gulati
Maghreb Is Algeria ready for Aquasafe's IoT? Is Algeria ready for IoT? In 2013 Iman Malek was certainly wondering: her company Aquasafe had created Internet-connected tools to allow... Aline Mayard • 07 July, 2016 aquaculture IoT Agriculture
Palestine Scarcity fuels Gaza hardware invention boom Following the successful Bold Knot crowdfunding campaign* in 2015, Gazan entrepreneurs have started pursuing their own hardware... Rafat Abushaban • 22 June, 2016 Sketch Engineering The Explorer Robot Taawon
Egypt Rubber a hot commodity for Egypt startup Retyres Driving Cairo’s ring road or through one of its many poorer outskirts, one often encounters the distinct smell of burned rubber:... Eduard Cousin • 19 June, 2016 tyres rubber Retyres
Egypt Egyptian selfie drone wins $26K Swiss investment Egyptian drone startup Drofie has attracted the attention of the Swiss, securing a 25,000 Swiss francs (US$26,000) investment and a spell... Rachel Williamson • 19 June, 2016 Fame monster Latvia Kickstart Accelerator
Saudi Arabia Curing KSA's concrete water problem Concure founders Mohammed Khalil, Dr. Feras Kafiah & Husam Walwil. (Image via Concure) Curing concrete is a tedious process that... Bérénice Magistretti • 08 June, 2016 curing blanket wet curing blanket concrete
Egypt Integreight launches IOT home automation kit Integreight at the Bay Area Maker Faire in San Mateo, California: CTO Islam Mustafa, embedded software engineer Eslam... Eduard Cousin • 05 June, 2016 home automation Togglit MEMakersGE
Egypt US-based Affectiva raises $14M Series D Affectiva's software can differentiate between a smirk, a happy smile, and a polite smile. (Images via Affectiva) Emotion... Rachel Williamson • 27 May, 2016 emotion recognition Rana el Kaliouby Affectiva
Jordan Meet the 16-year olds who brought the NASA Space Apps hackathon to Jordan The pilots of NASA Space Apps Amman: Rasha Khateeb (left) and Maram Abu Hussein (right). (Images via Sam Wendel) The countdown to Jordan’s ... Samuel Wendel • 11 May, 2016 NASA Space Apps Challenge Zain Group MEMakersGE
Global The next big thing is spacetech [Opinion] Space is a frontier that's fast becoming accessible to everyone. (Image via Timez5) The space economy is poised for explosive growth... Nader Sabry • 05 May, 2016 CanadaArm Space economy Virgin Galactic
Lebanon Lebanese drones tackling forest fires, NAR In 2014, when fires started raging through Nicolas Zaatar’s home district of Baabda in Lebanon, an opportunity presented... Lucy Knight • 05 May, 2016 Next Automated Robots MEMakersGE NAR
Saudi Arabia KSA e-store caters to electronics hobbyists A Hobby District circuit. (Images via Hobby District) Amateur circuit designers have surged into the electronics manufacturing sector... Ahmed Gabr • 12 May, 2016 Massimo Banzi HobbyDistrict MEMakersGE
Global What I know about building an IoT device: Shaun Moore A stint at Merrill Lynch in Chicago, experience developing mobile apps, and a constant affiliation with technology is what led Dallas-based... Archana Menon • 25 April, 2016 MEMakersGE WIK What I Know
Egypt Space Apps Challenge takes Egyptians from infinity to beyond Egyptian students, engineers and whizzkids breathed life into their 'moonshot' ideas. (Images via Eduard Cousin) Cairenes were seeking the... Eduard Cousin • 26 April, 2016 NASA Space Apps Challenge MEMakersGE Bazaar in Egypt
Global What I know about space: Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom Emeline Paat was in Beirut in March experimenting with plastic bag-based insulation systems for refugee tents. (Image via Rachel... Rachel Williamson • 11 April, 2016 Virgin Galactic XCOR Space Adventures
Egypt Micro-production of micro-solar launches in Egypt Tiba Solar CEO Ahmed Al-Abd (left) in December at his Cairo factory as the company kicked into first production. With him is Ain Al-Bee'ah... Sara Aggour • 14 April, 2016 Tiba Solar manufacturing solar
Egypt Cosplay, cake pops and robots at Maker Faire Cairo Electronics manufacturers were the main event at the Maker Faire in downtown Cairo’s Greek Campus, as most of this year’s... Eman Mostafa • 04 April, 2016 Maker Faire Cairo MEMakersGE Integreight
Kuwait Technopreneurship Challenge winners work to reduce car accidents in Kuwait The winners of the Kuwait Global Technopreneurship Challenge. (Image via Ana Tadic) The big questions were being asked at the Kuwait... Ana Tadic • 27 December, 2015 Legacy Kuwait Global Technopreneurship Challenge smart car
Egypt Sun rises on Egypt's Silicon Valley The Middle East has long been searching for its own Silicon Valley, but it’s been searching for the wrong ecosystem under the wrong... Rachel Williamson • 19 November, 2015 MEMS semiconductor Sun City
Maghreb Connecting the IoT dots in Tunisia [Opinion] The industry of connected objects, or what we have come to call the Internet of Things (IoT), has rapidly expanded around the world, but... Rim Zouabi • 08 October, 2015 IoT MEMakers CONNECTED HOME
Regional Prototype to product: how to manage your manufacturing Manufacturing is one of the final obstacles for hardware startups and it can be a rage-inducing affair. Flaky suppliers, the belated... Rachel Williamson • 20 September, 2015 pch manufacturing Hind Hobeika