I am an electrical engineering undergraduate specialising in power, based in Rawalpindi. I started Elite Bot Studios for a straightforward reason: embedded hardware work is usually sold on adjectives, and bought without evidence. A quotation promises "cutting-edge" this and "seamless" that, and the buyer has no way to tell whether any of it is true until the board is in their hand.
So this studio is built the other way round. The evidence comes first. Every build gets published with the problem, the approach, the exact bill of materials, the firmware, and the numbers measured on the bench. If a converter runs at 87% efficiency, that is what the page says. If a board is still in layout, the page says that too.
That constraint is uncomfortable in exactly the way it should be. It means we cannot advertise a portfolio we have not built, claim years we have not worked, or show clients we do not have. In October 2026 that leaves the portfolio nearly empty. The first two builds — an ESP32-based energy monitor and a KiCad-designed carrier board — are on the bench now.
What we can promise today is method. Work is scoped before it starts, tested before it ships, and handed over with documentation complete enough that another engineer can pick it up without a phone call.
This log exists to keep us honest about that. It is written as the work happens, including the parts that did not go to plan.