Portable Power Monitor
USB-C instrumentation for bring-up benches and field kits.
Project status
Rev B bring-up
Document every power anomaly where the hardware team can actually find it.
Project overview
The Portable Power Monitor exists because too many power investigations vanish into chat logs and scattered screenshots. This project page is meant to gather the board story, the debug process, and the generated hardware artifacts in one place.
Every revision should leave a paper trail: what changed, why it changed, and which files a future engineer should trust during manufacturing, assembly, and test.
Why this structure works
- Captures voltage, current, and accumulated energy during field tests.
- Pairs firmware drops with schematics and board outlines in predictable folders.
- Makes tutorial and blog content discoverable from the project itself.
Generated file buckets
Another repository can publish generated board files into these paths without requiring route changes in the frontend. When files are present, they appear here automatically at build time.
Board dimensions
Mechanical exports, keep-outs, and enclosure references.
/generated/portable-power-monitor/board-dimensions/
No files are published in this bucket yet. The sync workflow will create links here when the source repository pushes fresh artifacts.
Code
Firmware releases, examples, and support scripts.
/generated/portable-power-monitor/code/
No files are published in this bucket yet. The sync workflow will create links here when the source repository pushes fresh artifacts.
Data sheets
Vendor documents mirrored with the dash-separated naming used upstream.
/generated/portable-power-monitor/data-sheets/
No files are published in this bucket yet. The sync workflow will create links here when the source repository pushes fresh artifacts.
Datasheets
Compatibility bucket for generated exports that omit the dash.
/generated/portable-power-monitor/datasheets/
No files are published in this bucket yet. The sync workflow will create links here when the source repository pushes fresh artifacts.
Schematics
Rendered PDFs, source snapshots, and revision notes.
/generated/portable-power-monitor/schematics/
No files are published in this bucket yet. The sync workflow will create links here when the source repository pushes fresh artifacts.
Connected content
Documentation linked to Portable Power Monitor
Project pages are most useful when the related tutorials, reference pages, blog notes, and news updates stay attached to the same slug.
Documentation site rebuild starts with a static-first release
The new site structure is live as a static export so content can ship immediately on GitHub while the long-term Django plan takes shape.
A repeatable bring-up checklist for fresh PCBs
Turn first power-on into a documented process instead of a one-off scramble with loose bench notes.
Generated artifact folders are reserved for automation
Project pages now expose stable target paths for schematics, firmware bundles, and mechanical exports published by other repositories.
Publishing generated hardware files into the docs site
Set up a simple convention so another repository can push schematics, code, and dimension exports without changing the frontend.
Portable Power Monitor kit overview
Reference page for what the board does, where it fits into the workflow, and which generated artifacts should accompany each release.
What Rev B actually fixed on the Portable Power Monitor
A revision summary should say more than improved stability. It should explain which assumptions failed and what was changed to remove the risk.