About Alexandria

We are three friends from Switzerland who have always been drawn to prepper technology — the idea that self-sufficiency is worth building for. When we started asking ourselves what it would take to rebuild knowledge after a doomsday scenario, we realised no one had built exactly what we were looking for.

So we built it ourselves. Alexandria is based on a Raspberry Pi 4 with a 3.5-inch LCD touchscreen and a Bluetooth keyboard. We wrote our own application to read Kiwix files and maps offline. Because in a post-collapse scenario knowing where to find a hospital or a police station could mean everything, we added specific points of interest to the map using publicly available data.

We know that all of this information is publicly available. But not everyone has the time or the technical knowledge to assemble it. We wanted to create a finished product that we'd actually use — and we do. We've taken Alexandria into the woods to identify mushrooms and plants, brought it on sailing trips where its built-in hotspot let everyone on board read freely, and carried it wherever phones can't reach.

We are still a small startup finding our way — but we built this for ourselves first, and we're proud to share it.

Alexandria was born from a simple question: what would happen if the internet just disappeared tomorrow?

The answer was uncomfortable. Billions of people would be cut off overnight — from maps, medical knowledge, encyclopaedias, books. Knowledge that feels obvious as long as it's available.

The ancient Library of Alexandria once held the sum of human knowledge. When it burned, that knowledge was lost. The idea behind this device is the same as the original: take the most important things — Wikipedia, maps, the classics of world literature, history, practical knowledge — and preserve them somewhere they can't be taken away. On a small, robust device. Offline. Everywhere. For everyone.

We believe knowledge shouldn't depend on an internet connection. Alexandria is for everyone who wants to be prepared — not out of fear, but out of reason. For hikers in remote areas, for families building an emergency kit, for people who simply want to know that they always have access to what matters.

Every Alexandria is assembled, configured and tested by hand. We prioritise quality over volume — that's why we build to order and stand behind every single device.