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I spent sixteen years building one company, and I have been in the event industry since 2007. These days I write about the technology I actually use — trucks, radios, home infrastructure, and the tools that survive past the first invoice.
My thermostat's room sensor once decided I was in my office for about half a day after I had left, and it kept turning a light back on in an empty room. The motion sensor in the same room had the opposite problem: sit still at the desk ...
In July 2026 I looked into what it takes to camp in an RV at a festival. The first rule I found decided almost everything else: personal generators were banned across the whole site, and that includes the generator built into an RV. When I ...
In June I brought a weather bot to a four-day music festival in the woods. It posted conditions, forecasts and rain warnings to an off-grid community radio mesh. It reboot-cycled for two days, died for good late on day three, and never ...
At the last Electric Forest on-sale, the Back 40 log cabins were gone 15 minutes after the 10-year loyalty tier opened. Back 40 RVs lasted 20 minutes into the 9-year tier. Good Life pre-set RVs sold out on Thursday morning, more than an ...
My Discord community had a radio station: a bot that sat in a voice channel around the clock and played one blended, newest-first playlist of mixes. When a new mix was published, it jumped to the front of the queue and played next, a small ...
I wanted a visual for every track in my DJ library, cut to the shape of each song and locked to its beat. Priced out across a few thousand tracks at what my early runs cost, it came out in six figures. One test run with no spending cap ...
Two years of turning a Rivian R1T into something that can sleep two, run its own climate control and stay online off-grid. Every part, every mistake, and what I would buy again.
We get asked a lot about the gear we camp with. Here’s our master packing list. Are you looking for information on our Rivian build?