Confused Life - Reloaded

There is a specific smell to late-stage PCB work. A mix of coffee, solder mask anxiety, and the faint optimism that one more route pass will...

Drop shipping products from PCBWay For a while I have been ordering PCB’s from PCBWay and parts from Mouser and Digikey , then hand assem...

I have been meaning to try out the ADE7816 Single-phase 6 current channels energy monitor for a while. However time has been lacking for th...

After hassling Greg Davill for a while on twitter and admiring his OrangeCrab hardware I managed to catch up with him in person in Adelaid...

The bad Kenyan grid has struck again. There is very little built in surge protection in the system, so all appliances plugged to the wal...

After a many month hiatus we finally put together the 2nd Nairobi Open-source hardware meetup . This time we were at the Tav Irish Pub nea...

Getting away from a fast paced start-up to attend conferences is a hard ask. However I managed to get away for a few days to attend the in...

After doing a tear-down on the TPLink Wall Plug energy monitor I found mentions in Australia of the much cheaper Kogan Alternative . So I ...

In Adelaide I made a lot of prototypes PCB's and filled up filing cabinets and shelves with them. Some had value to others and I sold ...