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Hardware for Education · Pilot initiative

Before you recycle it, let it teach.

Yesterday's enterprise hardware could become tomorrow's classroom. pebble is exploring how useful retired technology can support local, multilingual and lower-connectivity education.

Choose a pathExplore the Learning Node

A different next step

Refresh does not have to mean finished.

  1. Purchased
  2. Used
  3. Refreshed
  4. Stored / resold / recycled
  1. Purchased
  2. Used
  3. Refreshed
  4. pebble assessment
  5. Learning

Three ways to participate

One campaign. Three levels of contribution.

01

Donate hardware

Offer usable retired devices or infrastructure for assessment, refurbishment and a possible education pilot.

Donate hardware
02

Sponsor a pebble Learning Node

Help explore a self-contained local learning deployment for places where connectivity cannot be assumed.

Sponsor a Learning Node
03

Become a technology partner

Contribute hardware, models, research, engineering, connectivity, logistics or funding to the work.

Become a technology partner

Planned pilot path

From corporate asset to learning tool

  1. 01Agreed handover
  2. 02Suitability assessment
  3. 03Agreed sanitisation and verification
  4. 04Refurbish or reconfigure
  5. 05pebble pilot setup
  6. 06Appropriate deployment
  7. 07Learning use
  8. 08Impact reporting where feasible

Every step depends on an agreed pilot process; no certification or deployment is implied.

Example Partner Impact Report

48devices redeployed
186learners reached
1,420learning sessions
312hAI-assisted learning
3communities supported

Languages English · Afrikaans · isiZulu · isiXhosa · Sepedi · Setswana

Our vision

Put AI education where the internet isn't.

A pebble Learning Node is the architecture we are working toward: local compute, content, networking and pebble services designed to support learners and teachers, with optional synchronisation when connectivity exists.

Local AILocal contentLocal networkpebbleLocal learning infrastructure
Internet · optional sync
pebble Learning NodeAI modelsEducational resourcesLocal contentLanguage resourcespebble services
Local network → learners · teachers · devices

Offline-first

What if the internet isn't guaranteed?

The design direction is simple: compute locally where practical, store useful resources locally, teach locally and synchronise when connectivity exists.

Available now

A six-language public information site and adult enquiry workflow.

Experimental

Local generative-AI tests on modest consumer hardware.

Planned

Pilot refurbishment, deployment and reporting processes.

Vision

Multilingual, offline-first pebble Learning Nodes.

Local reality · Global ambition

Built in Africa. Relevant anywhere.

This is not a request to save Africa. It is an engineering effort from South Africa to lower the infrastructure cost of excellent education — across African languages and connectivity realities, with lessons that could travel globally.

Suitable technology

What can we assess?

Usable laptops, desktops, workstations, GPUs, Apple Silicon devices, servers, storage, networking and Wi-Fi equipment, monitors, peripherals and UPS systems. This is not an open e-waste collection: suitability, condition, age, data obligations and realistic educational use matter.

  1. 1Contact pebble
  2. 2Discuss available assets
  3. 3Assess suitability
  4. 4Agree transfer and logistics
  5. 5Agree data requirements
  6. 6Refurbish suitable equipment
  7. 7Deploy where appropriate
  8. 8Report impact where feasible

What about our data?

Enterprise hardware requires an agreed data-handling and sanitisation process before any redeployment. Requirements will be agreed with each participating organisation, and equipment must pass that process before use. pebble does not currently claim certified destruction, ISO certification or government accreditation.

More useful life. More useful learning.

Extending suitable hardware life may delay disposal, increase useful asset life and avoid unnecessary replacement for appropriate educational workloads. We will not publish carbon or e-waste savings without a documented calculation method.

Example partner reporting

Partner reporting could show donated assets, status, deployments, sample impact measures, locations, photographs and downloadable reports after an agreed pilot process.

Example partner data · Not real assets
AssetStatusLocation
PB-0048AssessmentCape Town
PB-0049Pilot configuredOverberg
PB-0050Awaiting data processGauteng

Participate

Start a practical conversation

Choose the route that matches what your organisation can contribute. Our team will review the enquiry; submission does not confirm acceptance, sponsorship or partnership.

01

Donate hardware

Offer usable retired devices or infrastructure for assessment, refurbishment and a possible education pilot.

Do not include children's personal details, passwords, access credentials or sensitive asset data.

02

Sponsor a pebble Learning Node

Help explore a self-contained local learning deployment for places where connectivity cannot be assumed.

Do not include children's personal details, passwords, access credentials or sensitive asset data.

03

Become a technology partner

Contribute hardware, models, research, engineering, connectivity, logistics or funding to the work.

Do not include children's personal details, passwords, access credentials or sensitive asset data.