Welcome to Dedicated to New Technologies — a curious mind’s notebook. For years I’ve bought, built, broken and measured technology, then written up what I actually found rather than what the brochure promised. This is where those notes live.
One idea runs through everything here: test it properly, then report honestly. If I claim a battery holds a certain capacity, it’s because I logged it over weeks. If I say a tool disappoints, it’s because I used it in the field — not because I read someone else’s review.
The topics are deliberately broad, because curiosity doesn’t respect categories:
- Energy & Storage — home batteries, solar storage, inverters, electricity tariffs and energy arbitrage, measured over real seasons.
- Vehicles & Mobility — electric and hybrid vehicles and e-bikes, from cold-start behaviour to motor programming.
- Tools & Sensors — thermal cameras, test gear and diagnostic kit, judged on how they hold up in use.
- Software & AI — the fastest-growing corner: applied software, algorithms and AI built and validated on real hardware — Home Assistant, state estimators, automation and edge inference, with code and data shared where I can.
How I work: real deployments, data logging, long observation windows, version-controlled configs, and open-sourced code where it helps others. Where something failed, I leave the failure in — the failure modes are usually the most useful part.
Some of the hardware I test connects to wider engineering and manufacturing work I’m involved in; where that’s relevant I’ll link to it, but the reviews and verdicts here are my own and written independently.
If a write-up saves you a weekend, a bad purchase, or a night chasing a bug, it’s done its job. Thanks for reading — and stay curious.