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Innov8 Hub has adopted the Unity Board for capacity development, and prototyping among other uses even as it formally launches the Unity Board Lab.
Abuja based Innov8 Hub is an innovation startup driven organisation with a mandate to groom generations of innovators, inventors and researchers across board.
Innov8 is a focal point for innovation startup incubation, technology transfer, knowledge and skill impartation, prototype development and fabrication.
Co-Designer of the Unity Board, Dr. Agu Collins Agu announced this in a post this week.
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His words: “Some time ago, while on Sabbatical, I was invited for the I-fair Program (www.ifair-israelnigeria.com) organised by the State of Israel as a Technical Mentor to facilitate prototype development for the startups at the Innovate Hub,
“It was a month long intensive program during which I introduced the Unity Board to the program while working alongside the Israeli Mentors from MAKELAB Israel. The Unity Board was well appreciated by the startups due to its flexibility, etc
Agu: The Unity Board was well appreciated by the startups due to its flexibility, etc
“I’m proud to inform you that Innov8 Hub under the management of the Israelis is adopting Unity Board and launching Unity Board Lab named after me,” said
“Quite frankly, I resisted the idea of naming the Lab after me since I’m a co-designer but they insisted citing several reasons. While attending the NSE Conference, I was invited to grace the occasion.”
The Unity Board was globally unveiled at the GITEX 2018 expo to underscore a major trajectory in Nigeria’s efforts at development of hardware computing, notably for IoT.
The Unity Board is an Arduino Compatible Development Board for fast and flexible IoT solutions. It is maker friendly and fully compatible with Arduino peripheral modules making it programmable via Arduino IDE and compatible with all the example codes and libraries for Arduino. It is also compatible with Graphical Programming Environment such as XOD, ArduBlock, Scratch for Arduino (S4A), Minibloq, Modkit, Visuino, Embrio, GraspIO, etc.
Unity Board puts more features On-Board for fast and flexible IoT-Device development giving unrivalled flexibility for developers while integrating a complete collection of motion, gesture, and environmental sensors, unavailable on other boards in the market.
It teaches Physical Computing combining hardware and software by focusing on teaching of computer science and computational thinking creating a perfect way to introduce schools to physical computing that opens up a world of opportunities in the fields of AI, Robotics, Internet of Things (IoT), etc.
Weeks back, Agu, a consummate tech researcher, announced that the design of Unity Board Pro AIoT Platform (Arduino Compatible) is finally completed and ready for manufacturing.
“I am glad to be part of this shared commitment to groom our young people on the necessary skills to drive the new economy and put our country on the global map of innovation,” said Agu to IT Edge News in Abuja.
Agu, an IoT Systems expert, programmer, and mentor to many startups/innovation hubs, is also Director of Research and Development (R&D), National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA).
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