Confused Life - Reloaded

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

Some say China is the country of 80-20, things are complete and great to 80% , the remaining 20% of polish is left hanging. The Mediatek CP...

A while ago I remember watching a youtube video from about x10 years ago talking about distributed social network platforms running on Sh...

Looking at other energy-monitor designs has been a past-time of mine and I recently the chance to teardown a Neur.io energy monitor instal...

Recently I obtained a Sense Energy monitor via US from Margaret of BitKnitting . She is doing a very interesting neighbourhood energy effi...

Tear-downs are always done in a spirit of learning and admiration. Having built some hobby electronics I really appreciate what goes into ...

ATM90E3X Devkit PCB 5x5 After successfully building the single-phase energy monitor with the ATM90E26 there has been lots of interest...

The best way to learn is often by looking at solutions others have come up with. "Monkey see - monkey do" is pretty much part of ...

Last Sunday (6th of November 2016) I spent almost the whole day on my feet talking to people at the Adelaide Maker Faire . It was a great e...

Before I commit a design to a PCB, I usually make a messy jumpers everywhere version on a breadboard. This is not always possible for a ful...

After designing and testing the ADE7763 based Energy Monitor Breakout Board, I started looking around for cheaper and more modern alternati...

After selling a few kits and populated boards of the NodeMCU Energy Monitor on Tindie, I started receiving feedback from people in the ...

After building the NodeMCU based energy monitor with an external 16 bit delta-sigma ADC i.e. the ADS1115 I started looking into solutions...

A few weeks back I participated in the SeeedStudio ESP8266 project design contest with my NodeMCU based Energy Monitor. As in all populari...

After a spate of high electricity bills and trying to save energy by turning things off randomly I decided to do it the proper and scien...