Pevly has been writing about small cameras and desktop hardware since the middle of the last decade — through the period when action cameras went from niche to ubiquitous, when desktop 3D printing went from kit-built curiosity to commodity, and when camera drones became something you could fly straight out of the box.
Much of what we published in those years was tied to individual products, and most of those products no longer exist. In rebuilding this site we removed them. What remains is the part that outlasted the hardware: how these machines actually work, how they fail, and what to look for when you are choosing between them.
How the coverage is made
Everything here comes from hands-on use. The 3D printing archive in particular is a set of build logs — machines assembled from kits, run for months, broken, diagnosed and upgraded. The failure modes described are ones we hit ourselves, and the fixes are the ones that worked.
On older hardware
Several articles cover machines that are no longer sold. They are kept because those designs were cloned extensively, and the assembly problems, firmware quirks and upgrade paths still apply to their many descendants.
Independence
No manufacturer, retailer or agency has any input into what is published here, and no coverage on this site is paid for. Nothing is written to steer you toward a purchase or toward a more expensive option. Where the honest answer is that your existing gear is fine, that is what you will read.
Corrections
Hardware writing ages, and some of this writing is old. If something here is wrong, out of date, or has been overtaken by a firmware change, please tell us — corrections are made in place and noted where the change is material.