Building a kitchen in a van means making trade-offs. Do you really need hot water, or can you just boil some when you need it? Does the faucet need to have an electric pump, or can it just be done by...

Most vans I see have a similar layout: the bed at the back, and the kitchen near the sliding door on the side. I don't like this layout because, even though the area beneath the bed is used for...

We have a cell phone and a Mifi device we use to connect to our laptops for fast internet in the van (thanks to some speed-boosting tricks). But staying under the data caps for each was challenging...

Between living in a cabin and living in a van, we've learned a lot about cell booster network repeaters. This article will help you find the best cell phone signal booster for your needs. Are cell...

We need the best internet while traveling. And not just for Instagram, either. Our livelihood depends on it. Between us, we spent over a decade working entirely on the road. We paid our way through...

When we began our cross-country vanlife trip, we wanted to share the trip with friends and family — so I started looking for a road trip map planner. Road trip apps like Roadtrippers are popular and...

I needed a way to for guests to control my home automation. There are many easy remote control products out there, like Harmony by Logitech. But home-assistant.io is so much more powerful than these...

Setting up an envoy proxy can help websites scale, especially in a dockerized world of micro-services. As websites grow, routing traffic becomes increasingly complicated. Different subdomains...

In my quixotic quest for an entirely solar-powered van build, I also created a home automation server like that at my house. I ended up with an energy efficient steampunk computer with the same core...

Once I had planned and installed the solar panels and battery in my tiny-home/van, I was prepared to begin wiring everything up for my camper van electric conversion. Okay, maybe prepared is an...