About Currenari Lab
Public Record Creates Discipline
Currenari Lab is my public record of designing open hardware. It also publishes a weekly technical magazine.
I document electronics projects from my AuDHD brain through to finished open-hardware PCBs, built and released for anyone to study, fork, modify, or build.
Articles about tech — reviews, finds, observations, reflections, and analysis.
Solving the Fade
Most tinkering projects don’t fail dramatically. They fade and stall in folders called “v3-final-final-actually-final,” sit half-soldered on the bench, collect dust in a parts container, or get replaced by the next idea before they’re finished.
Public record creates visibility.
Visibility creates pressure.
Pressure creates completion.
I’m Jay. AuDHD. Gen X. I’ve been building electronics since 1986 — I hand-etched my first PCB and thought something big was about to happen.
Nothing big happened. The universe did not care about my etched copper masterpiece.
Instead: decades of fried components, repaired gear, job changes, late-night design spirals, and hard-earned lessons. My brain runs in parallel threads. It jumps tracks. Finishing takes force.
So I make the work public.
Two Publishing Tracks
1. Open Hardware — Free
Complete projects, shipped fully open:
Schematics
PCB design files
Firmware
BOM
Build guides and documentation
Everything is published openly. If it’s released, it works.
2. Midweek Current — Paid Membership
One focused technical deep dive each week.
Component breakdowns and teardowns, no-BS supplier realities and sourcing notes, design tradeoffs that actually matter, mistakes worth documenting, reviews of tools and interesting builds, spotlights on compelling people and companies in hardware, and standout problems worth thinking through properly.
Focused on hardware and firmware — builds, suppliers, decisions, and mistakes.
These articles directly support the lab, funding components, tools, prototyping, and future open hardware builds.
Subscription Structure
1. Free
All open hardware releases
Lab notes and technical commentary
2. Paid (£5/month or £50/year)
Midweek Current (weekly technical article)
Full Midweek Current archive
Comment access and direct email
3. Founding Member (£150/year)
All paid benefits
Directly funds tools, stock, fabrication, and core lab resources
Priority email access
Named acknowledgement in Midweek Current (selected issues)
Open hardware remains open and forkable regardless of subscription tier.
Open Commitment & Independence
Licensing by material type:
Firmware — MIT
Hardware design files — CERN-OHL-S v2
Documentation — CC BY 4.0
Full terms are defined in each project’s LICENSE.md within its dedicated repository.
If fabrication, assembly, or parts are sponsored, it is disclosed clearly.
Sponsorship does not buy positive coverage.
Long-Term Work
I aim to motivate people to build — to make something physical and give their ideas form, perspective, and direction. Electronics became my way of managing a restless brain and navigating mental health challenges. Building helps me, so I made the process public.
Build. Document. Release.
— Jay
