Category: TechteamGB

I got an email a few weeks ago asking if I wanted to check out a tool called TOMMY sense, a way to turn ESP32s (that you might

It’s getting hotter and hotter in Britain. With a record high May ALREADY, I made the apparently prophetic decision to get a dual head mini split air conditioning

Earlier this year I bought most of Ikea’s brand new Matter-Over-Thread smart home tech, and generally loved them. There were a few things though that weren’t available –

I’ve made a whole bunch of improvements to the latency tool since I last talked about it here, so I thought it was worth talking through what’s new,

Last week Google announced Android 17 at their “The Android Show”, proclaiming it the “biggest Android update ever”, mostly thanks to “Gemini Personal Intelligence” being intertwined so heavily

Plug-in solar is coming, but should you buy a kit for yourself? Well, probably yes, but there’s a lot more nuance available if you’re interested, so let’s dive

What cable to use keeps getting more and more complicated, so let me do my best to break it down so you know what to use, what to

Because I like to overcomplicate things, I’m turning all of this, into… this! Why? How? And how can you do this too? All of that is coming right

With Raspberry Pis costing more and more – a 4GB Pi 5 setting you back £81.60, and a Pi 4 is £72 (plus another tenner for an SD

In part because I can’t help myself, and in part because I wanted something better than what’s out there already, I’m making my own smart home sensors. Specifically,