Brick streamlines inspections on a budget

— April 22nd, 2026

Nobody enjoys doing inspections, but they’re a fact of life across many different industries. If you rent out moving trucks, for example, you need to do inspections before and after each rental, so you know if a customer damages something that needs to be addressed. But the logistics of those inspections are tricky and often expensive. That’s why Alejandro Vazquez developed “Brick.”

Brick is an open-source embedded device designed specifically for performing and logging inspections. It is a handheld and compact unit that inspectors can carry in a glovebox, wear on a belt, or stuff in a pocket.…