@Dishman

Meet Philo, a robot companion :D I'm attempting to build a robot companion that follows you via camera using a raspberry pi. All the info is in my Github!

In February 2021, over 4.5 million Texas homes lost power in freezing temperatures during a power grid failure. I was one of them, the winter was hard with all hotels being booked as people scrambled to get heat. It was a very hard winter with our apartment getting to around 60 degrees Fahrenheit. I wanted to understand why the grid failure happened and came to the conclusion, The problem was that grid operators had almost no real-time view into household consumption of power. They didn't have the data to see the demand of power was changing minute by minute as more people in homes turned on their heaters to warm their homes. I want to understand how power is measured, how the grid sees demand so I will try to build a custom PCB that clips non-invasive current transformer sensors around wires and measure real-time power usage I would like it to measure Watts. Apparent power (VA) and Power factor.

I'm building one of the projects provided by HackClub for the purpose of getting used to working with KICAD and Fustion360 :) it took me about 3 hours to learn how to use 360 and try to see if the PCB would fit into my case. It took me about 1 hour trying to figure out how KICAD worked with the schematic and routing.