Designing electronics for places where the power goes out
Load-shedding is not an edge case in Malawi — it is the operating environment. That changes how you design everything.
The notebook
Thinking out loud.
Finished thoughts, working notes, and questions I’m still sitting with. A notebook about engineering and everything around it.
Essays
Research
Low-cost prepaid energy submetering for multi-tenant housing in Malawi
A field evaluation of an ESP32-based prepaid submeter design, deployed across 12 households in Lilongwe for six months.
Notes & observations
My KiCad project hygiene, after too many rescues
Small workflow rules that keep a PCB project openable in five years.