Syrian hardware startup Daraty dodging country’s challenges
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Two engineering students in Syria’s capital are overcoming the enormous challenges in their war-torn country to launch Daraty, an interactive Arabic toolkit encouraging critical thinking and building skills among children.
“We want to simplify the process of building hardware for children by offering them larger, simpler pieces to work with, along with an interactive app that tracks their progress,” said Daraty cofounder Sana Hawasly.
She and her partner AlHasan Muhammad Ali, both students at the University of Damascus in Syria, have been working on Daraty since 2013. The founders first pitched their startup at Startup Weekend Damascus in 2014 and won the third place prize of $500. Later that year, they joined Syrian incubator ICT.
The first Daraty prototype was intended to be a 20 piece kit of switches, lights, resistors, audio pieces, temperature sensors and other parts. Children assemble the pieces with the guidance of the Daraty app, which includes over 50 assembly combinations in its database. They can create interesting models such as speakers, alarms, traffic lights and even solar-powered gadgets.
Ce qu’il reste de l’autre #Syrie.
