I know this update is long overdue — well past nine months, to be exact — but sometimes life takes unexpected turns and priorities shift. Nonetheless, I couldn’t let this experience go unshared, especially when the excitement and insights from the “Mechatronics at JKUATTechExpo 12.0” are still fresh in my…

“There is a world elsewhere” — Shakespeare Embarking on a journey to check off an item from my bucket list has been nothing short of incredible. As I share my experiences, stories, and insights in this blog, I invite you to join me on this extraordinary quest, where dreams become…

“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” Duke Ellington I will demonstrate how to write a namegenerator library in Go in this blog post. The library will generate random names from a name dataset. The dataset is available at https://www.cs.cmu.edu/. Background During the development of the mainflux-e2e-tools…

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. Alan Kay We will start by demystifying a few concepts. Cloudflare is a content delivery network (CDN) that primarily acts as a reverse proxy between a website visitor and a Cloudflare customer. A reverse proxy is an intermediate connection…

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.” William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s guide on Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Manufacturing from Kenya is a comprehensive explanation of manufacturing printed circuit boards. The guide discusses the various steps involved in the process, from the initial design to the testing of the finished…

I was playing around with PCB layers and found myself designing a PCB business card. I have never been as eager to get PCB boards as I was this time. Here are the front and backside of how the PCB looks like

Electronics are getting more and more accessible now — you don’t have to be an engineer to start building things. Simone Giertz

I look at art as a container. You can’t get inside it, so you have to ask all of these questions. Mark Bradford The previous blog is at: “H4: Second half of the 12-factor app” The Internet of Things (IoT) has brought with it a slew of advantages. However, it…

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. - Francis Drake The previous blog is at: “H3: First half of the 12-factor app” 7. Port binding 80 & 8010 The 12-factor application must be self-contained and bind…