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Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) is the busiest international airport in the country, receiving about 3 million international passengers a year. When arriving passengers land at the airport, in order to pass through to immigration, they pass through the doors shown above. Above it, a lone sign that reads “Welcome to Nigeria.”

Airports, especially international ones, are the entry point to countries and for Nigerians - who have an active diaspora - airports like MMIA should announce that we are indeed home. With more than 300 languages, a sole sign board in English simply does not do this.

Challenge


Design a physical interface that lists 'Welcome' in every Nigerian language. The interface should be clearly visible from a distance and may incorporate other signals (such as audio, etc) as it would be displayed in Nigerian international airports or other locations. The product should also have the ability to be updated with new languages.

The challenge will progress in three stages: application, design, and development, with different deliverables for each stage. At the end of the challenge, the physical interface will be built and design made open source for future improvements by the community.

Apply here: https://www.hardwarethings.org/contests/welcome-to-nigeria

The guys at Hardware Lagos are running a 'State of Nigerian Hardware Survey'. It's a short survey to gain more insight on how people in the hardware (product development) space work in Nigeria, the industry is not as big and there isn't a lot of data.

Two people who fill the survey stand the chance to win $50 Adafruit gift certificates, and if you would like to receive the report of the survey you can add your email address when completing the survey.

The survey is here: https://hardwarelagos.typeform.com/to/ZTI8Lz

Thanks!

You can vote everyday.

If you have any problems voting, I can help.

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My team and I got shortlisted for the ASME IShow Finals in Kenya, and we need your help with votes. It's a chance to pitch, obtain expert engineering critique of our product, and hopefully raise funds to produce it. The product, called FlowByte (www.flowbyte.co), is designed to measure the amount of fuel purchased at fuel stations, so as to eliminate meter tampering and provide us with value for money.

Voting is open until the 19th of April and you can vote everyday. Simply follow this link: https://thisishardware.org/competition/2016/social_voting/kenya look for 'Chuma Asuzu' and product 'flowbyte', enter your email, click Vote and then confirm your vote with the link sent to your email. You only have to confirm your email the first time you vote.

Thank you in advance!