New guides, builds, and field notes from the SatBug crew — posted as we finish testing them.
We sat down to map out the next few issues and ended up arguing about which sensor builds actually earn their place on a breadboard. This post captures the shortlist — the projects we're committing to, the parts we can source locally without waiting a month, and the ones we're cutting because they're more gimmick than useful. If you've ever wondered how an editorial calendar for a tech magazine gets built, this is the messy middle of it.
I swapped my phone's default home screen for a stripped-down launcher and ran it for seven days straight. The goal wasn't minimalism for its own sake — it was to see whether fewer notifications actually change how often I pick up the device. The short answer: yes, but not for the reasons I expected. This piece walks through the setup, the battery impact, and the one habit I couldn't shake no matter how clean the interface got.
Three weeks after publishing our first look at a budget Wi-Fi relay board, we went back to re-test it with the firmware update the manufacturer quietly released. The original review flagged some flaky MQTT behaviour; the new build behaves differently. This follow-up covers what actually improved, what stayed broken, and whether the update changes our recommendation for first-time buyers in South Africa.
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