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Smart Tech for Real People
Practical, jargon-free guides for everyday technology. Explore Home Networking, Tech for Seniors, and Digital Literacy alongside Tartanleaf’s Bitcoin mining and Amateur Radio titles.
Publications
Practical Guides for Real People
Smart Tech for Real People is the featured series: Home Networking is available now, with Tech for Seniors and Digital Literacy coming soon. Tartanleaf also publishes practical Bitcoin mining and Amateur Radio guides.
Smart Tech for Real People
Practical, jargon-free guides for safer, more confident everyday technology. Home Networking is available now. Tech for Seniors and Digital Literacy are coming soon.
Choose the problem you want to solve, preview the next titles, or start with free browser-based tools.
RadioBook
Five books plus interactive browser games that teach amateur radio from the ground up — no prior knowledge needed.
All five volumes and both Canadian and U.S. answer guides are available now in paperback and Kindle on Amazon.
Bitcoin Mining with Bitaxe
Build, configure, and operate your own open-source ASIC miner at home. From beginner basics to advanced tuning.
Available now in paperback and Kindle on Amazon. The paperback is also available to bookstores and libraries through IngramSpark wholesale distribution.
Reader feedback and practical proof
Practical, Real-World Advice From Hands-On Experience
★★★★★
“SOLID Buy for any Bitaxe Miner or Enthusiast. Every Bitaxe newbie needs one of these. Solid information. Great detail. Highly recommend.” — Alex F., Amazon Review, 5 stars
Flexible ordering
Published titles are available in Kindle and paperback formats. Paperbacks can also be ordered through bookstores and libraries supplied by Ingram. See the Books page for current options.
Tested in practice
Technical guidance is grounded in hands-on testing and practical experience. Forward-looking or in-development material is labelled clearly.
Start With Free Help
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Home Network Baseline and Recovery Pack
Record what normally works, narrow a future problem and make controlled, reversible changes. Delivered by email and useful on its own.
RadioBook Game Suite
Practise callsigns, phonetics, Q-codes, weak-signal copying and other amateur-radio skills in a browser.
Bitaxe Owner’s Pack
Build a known-good baseline, work through maintenance decisions and prepare a useful troubleshooting record.
Useful Guides to Start With
Make Home-Network Troubleshooting Less Technical
See how HomeNetCheck separates symptoms from causes without changing router settings automatically.
A Practical Amateur-Radio Learning System
Learn how the RadioBook volumes, answer guides and browser games work together for beginners.
Should You Update Bitaxe Firmware?
Use a low-risk process to decide, prepare, verify and recover instead of updating by guesswork.
The Author
Greg Weir — Your Guide to Tech Confidence
Greg is a technical systems architect, open-hardware advocate, and the creator of the Smart Tech for Real People series. His work blends engineering clarity with accessible, real-world guidance — helping everyday users understand and operate complex technology with confidence.
Through clear writing, practical guides, and hands-on experimentation, Greg explores open-source tools, self-hosted systems, Bitcoin, automation, and everyday digital habits — always with an emphasis on clarity, empowerment, and reducing waste.
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