Argo

Hardware

Chips, devices and wearables you can own.

· 9 min read

The third copy: turning an old MacBook into an encrypted home backup

Six steps to make a spare Mac pull your nightly Postgres dump from B2 onto an encrypted volume, and prove it restores. Standard tools: pg_dump, rclone, diskutil, launchd.

· 13 min read

Designing a keychain AI companion that runs on your own Second Brain

· 13 min read

How we gave a Reachy Mini robot a voice, a personality and a memory

More articles

· 24 min read

How we sync a smart ring into our own database, and how you can too

Pull your Ultrahuman ring data hourly into your own Postgres, what each field means, how to chart it, how agents can use it, with code and a prompt.

· 6 min read

LLP#019, 30 Years in Robotics, Shenzhen, and Claude Code: Tony Lopez

A conversation at Network School with Tony Lopez, an electronics and robotics engineer who went from a childhood MSX computer in Spain to aerospace work with the European Space Agency, four years building lithium iron phosphate batteries in Shenzhen, and a nomadic decade through Georgia and Southeast Asia. On how a PID controller works, why he reads Shenzhen as a learning environment, the “Claude Code moment,” and creativity as the human edge.