buildfor.life docs
Long-lifetime, repairable, open-source electronics — technical reference for engineers, integrators, and contributors.
What lives here
Section titled “What lives here”Technical reference for what we build and publish, alongside the buildfor.life public site. The blog tells the story; these pages are what you need to use, reproduce, or extend the work.
Products
- LVSolarBuck: the 48 V MPPT solar input module
- Lightbulb: the long-lifetime LED lamp
- 48V System: the DC ecosystem the products share
Lab tooling
- MPPT Testbench: automated converter characterization and the charge controller test procedure behind our comparisons
- Lamp test procedure: how lamps are measured
- Fill Resistance: DC copper resistance and current density inside KiCad
- Ping River Monitor: live flood monitoring and forecasting for Chiang Mai, with an open API
Licensing
Contributing
Section titled “Contributing”All B4L hardware is published under CERN-OHL-S-2.0 and firmware under GPL-3.0; software tools carry their own license in each repository. Source lives at git.b4l.co.th/B4L.