Pi Jam Uyo

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Most software engineers have never held a circuit board with their own code running on it. Pi Jam Uyo is built to change that — in a single afternoon.

This is a hybrid hackathon jam held in Uyo, Akwa Ibom, open to developers of all levels who want to experience the physical world their software could be touching. Working in small teams around a Raspberry Pi 5 and Pico 2 microcontrollers, participants choose one of five build challenges: running a fully offline AI agent (no cloud, no API key) that can read real sensor data; building a smart plug energy monitor that visualises live power consumption; setting up a Pi-hole DNS server that blocks ads for every device on the network; wiring a temperature/humidity sensor to a live Grafana dashboard; or building a personal weather station from scratch.

We open with a short talk on the hardware industry — drones, defence, industrial IoT, agritech — where embedded software is not a side project but the core product. We’ll also cover how to source hardware locally in Nigeria (Swiftberry.ng, Microscale.ng) and internationally.

By the end of the session, every team will have something real running on real hardware — and a clear idea of what to build next.

Suitable for: software engineers, web developers, CS students, and anyone who writes code and wants to know what happens when it leaves the screen. No hardware experience required.

Format: Hybrid — in-person (Uyo, Akwa Ibom) + online stream. Approximately 4 hours.

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