Practical independence · systems that matter · no spectators
DIRTY GRID
It’s not for everybody. It shouldn’t be.
Dirty Grid is for people who would rather understand the system than be helpless beside it. We document the equipment, the measurements, the mistakes, the repairs, the ideas and the lessons that hold up when convenience quits early.
The working system
One operation. Four ways to get useful.
Learn a skill. Build a system. Keep an idea alive. Share a hard-won fix. Radio School belongs inside AI University, and everything has a home without pretending this place is a shopping mall.
AIU
AI University
The learning division: Radio School, Field Engineering, Learn AI, Power Planner, and the practical schools still to come.
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PROJECTS
Dirty Grid Projects
Sea-cans, off-grid living, working tools, real builds, repairs, failures, costs, measurements, and lessons earned the expensive way.
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IDEAS
Bright Ideas
The idea ledger: capture everything, sort it into Now, Next or Later, and chase only what has earned priority.
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COMMUNITY
Fix or Figure Out
Field stories, hard-won fixes, questions, workarounds, failures, and a future member community built around useful experience.
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Learn it until it becomes yours.
Radio, field engineering, AI and power live here. The point is not to collect lessons; it is to become harder to fool, easier to rely on and more capable when things get interesting.
Radio School
Practical radio training from listening and electronics through antennas, operating, scanner work and Canadian licensing.
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Field Engineering
Practical electrical, mechanical, water, structural and troubleshooting knowledge without the university-catalogue overload.
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Practical AI for ordinary work: ask better questions, verify answers, organize knowledge, build tools, and know when the machine is bluffing.
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A calculator-first power school: choose what you want to run, then see the battery, solar, inverter, wiring and backup system required.
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Build it until it earns trust.
The useful version includes the parts list, the cost, the ugly first attempt, the measurements and the change that actually solved the problem.
Sea-Can Projects
Shipping-container workshops, power rooms, batteries, electrical, insulation, heating, ventilation and hard-earned lessons.
See the work →Off-Grid Living
Power, water, heat, communications, resilience, tools and the daily reality of making a remote place work.
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Live Tools
Weather, FireWatch and Scanner: working tools that answer what is happening out there right now.
See the work →Ideas need a ledger, not a leash.
Keep the good sparks alive without letting every one of them derail the job on the bench.
Open the ledger →FIX OR FIGURE OUTShare the part that actually mattered.
The field record is for facts, failures, fixes and useful experience—not polished nonsense.
Read the field record →Field desk
See conditions. Make better calls.
Weather, FireWatch and Scanner are here for the moment when guessing is a poor substitute for looking.
