Measuring electrical power over long periods is often more useful than taking a single snapshot. A device may behave perfectly during a quick bench test and still reveal unexpected current peaks, warm-up drift, sleep-state anomalies, poor power factor, or efficiency losses only after minutes, hours, or even days of observation.

That is the reason I wrote GPMLink, a small logging utility for the GW Instek GPM-8310 AC/DC power meter. The goal was simple: connect the instrument to a computer over Ethernet, query its measurements at regular intervals, display the data, and save a continuous CSV log that could later be inspected, plotted, or imported into other analysis tools.

PiKrellCam Reborn was my attempt to extend one of the most useful motion-detection and surveillance applications ever written for the Raspberry Pi. The original PiKrellCam already provided a remarkably complete camera interface: live preview, on-screen display, motion-triggered video recording, media browsing, scheduled commands, and a highly configurable web UI. My fork added a second layer to that idea: an environmental logger for temperature and humidity, integrated directly into the same camera dashboard.

In the very last stretch before the pandemic, I began playing organ with SAKILI, a Berlin-based roots-reggae and chanson project led by Antoine Villoutreix. We rehearsed in Pepe Rasmus Weissgerber’s practice room around Ostkreuz: a warm, lived-in Proberaum with that very particular Berlin mixture of music, craft, odd equipment, wood dust, friendship, and unfinished plans.

I never played a gig with SAKILI. My whole chapter with the band happened in that rehearsal room, where I tried to learn and play their complete setlist on organ. It was beautiful, but it was also daunting. Reggae is not as simple as it may sound from the outside, and at that time I was going through a very stressful period in Berlin. Eventually I left the band, and not long after that I left Berlin for good.

Back in its working days, this tube amplifier by GELOSO was used to amplify a small open-air cinema during warm Italian summer nights, somewhere between the 1970s and the late 1980s.

It was not a hi-fi amplifier, and it was never meant to be one. Its purpose was different: to make voices intelligible, music present, and film soundtracks audible across an outdoor space where people had gathered simply to watch a story unfold together. For spoken dialogue, narration, projected film sound, and the modest sound effects of that era, it was more than enough.