The text below has been a part of my workshop blog for a while now but people around me have been pressuring me to publish it to the public. I'm still not sure it is a good idea, but here it is.

The first idea was small. My raspberry pi zero w could be powered from a USB power bank. ...could the powerbank be charged at the same time, making it a tiny uninterruptible power supply (UPS)? The size of the idea was restricted by the fact that the zero uses a microUSB connector for power. But in my head I expanded the idea sideways to other units as well. The petite 802.11n router (gl-ar300m) that shared the internet connection to the household was also powered through microUSB.

Well, those two use cases would be easily solved for my dream of some day living in an #offgrid #tinyhouse.