I’m Thomas Gohle, and Tōgō Lab / 塔郷研究所 is my home base for future electronics projects.
About me: I studied RF communications in my youth, then spent the last few decades in semiconductor maintenance (details on LinkedIn).
I currently live in Dresden, Germany. With retirement on the horizon in some years, I’m rebooting my hobby. To my boss, if you’re reading this: it will take a while (you know how slow I can be). As you know I’m still working on current and upcoming equipment projects, and I still like to play with my wet-chemistry semicon beasts.
What can you expect? RF experiments, analog circuits, sensor builds and some digital electronics projects to some extend. I enjoy small AVR work, especially ATtiny. I document designs so they can be reproduced and improved by others. The midterm plan is to turn stable builds into small-batch kits and offer them to you. But making money is definitely not the goal of Tōgō Lab. The main goal is community, having fun, learning something new and doing things with my hands.
Collaboration lives on this server. Source code and issues are in Gitea at https://gitea.togo-lab.io. Shared docs and files that don’t fit into Gitea run through Nextcloud at https://nextcloud.togo-lab.io, which also supports basic project planning and control. This blog ties it together with build notes, measurements, and hard-won lessons. Some areas may be invite-only while the workspace settles.
Under the hood it’s a simple stack: Debian on a VPS and Apache with HTTPS via Let’s Encrypt, with a reverse proxy to services. I also keep a separate, older weblog you can find at my primary landing page https://tgonet.de. That older blog is shifting to private and travel notes (I like to travel, especially in the Far East), while Tōgō Lab here stays focused on electronics.
If RF, analog, and ATtiny projects are your thing, feel free to follow along, e.g., via my Mastodon account connected to Tōgō Lab. Ideas and pull requests welcome.