How has using OpenClaw AI as my head of marketing gone?
I’m several weeks into using the OpenClaw AI solution as Eliza, my head of marketing. It feels a good time to share how its gone. There’s people using OpenClaw for all sorts of things, multiple job roles. I’ve used it for just this one for now, mainly because I’ve already got good AI automation workflows […]
Picking a microcontroller for a product that needs to last: what we consider at IBEX
Choosing a microcontroller for a product that needs to last 10 years isn’t a spec-sheet exercise. It’s a risk management decision that touches your supply chain, your firmware architecture, and ultimately your ability to keep shipping long after launch. At IBEX, we approach processor selection with a simple mindset: optimise for durability first, then performance. […]
UK Innovation Report 2026
The UK Innovation Report 2026 (Cambridge IfM, published this morning) makes a pointed argument: investing in R&D is not enough. Growth only happens when innovation connects to sectors that can actually scale and compete globally. The electronics and hardware side of UK tech is exactly that kind of sector. The problem is that too many […]
What the UK’s New CHIMES Programme Means for Product Developers
The UK government continues to expand its national innovation infrastructure, and the Centre for Heterogeneous Integrated MicroElectronic and Semiconductor Systems (CHIMES) is one of the latest pieces of that puzzle. For product developers, especially those working in electronics, IoT, advanced hardware, and deep tech, it signals an important shift in how the UK intends to […]
Verified Location cloud service
The Verified Location website was developed by IBEX for the age of AI fakery to allow real people to prove they’re actually where they say they are. A niche web app that does one job really well. The system integrates scalable cloud infrastructure with an iOS and Android mobile app that integrates accurate location detection, […]
Why AI is Changing Technical Reference Content (And What It Means for Engineering Companies)
Many UK engineering companies are seeing it: technical reference pages that once drove steady traffic are dropping sharply. We have seen it ourselves at IBEX. Our technical reference mini sites experienced a significant fall in traffic as AI-powered search tools began answering technical questions directly, without sending users to the source site. This is not […]
Electronics Product Design UK – The Simple Way We Build Smart Products
If you’ve searched for electronics product design UK, you’ve probably seen a lot of big claims. “Full-service.” “End-to-end.” “Innovation partners.” Fair enough. Here’s what that actually means at Ibex — from someone who’s in the trenches building the things. We design electronic products properly. From the first sketch to production. Hardware, firmware, software, and the […]
Solving the UK Engineering Skills Crisis: Why Technology Partnerships Make Sense
The UK engineering sector is entering 2026 with a strange contradiction. Engineers themselves are cautiously optimistic about the year ahead, driven by strong order books and expanding investment in areas like energy and defence.Yet the organisations employing them are facing one of the most severe capability shortages in decades. This gap between opportunity and available […]
What Embedded World 2026 Reveals About the Future of UK Product Development
Embedded World 2026 is fast approaching, and as always it acts as a reliable early indicator of where the global electronics and product engineering sector is heading. The conference gathers semiconductor vendors, RTOS providers, device manufacturers, toolchain developers, and system integrators in one place. If you build connected products in the UK, this event matters […]
Adding Smart Features Doesn’t Have to Be Hard (or Expensive)
We recently finished a product design where we integrated the Tuya platform for a client. It got me thinking about how much easier this stuff has become. A few years back, if you wanted to add app control to a physical product, you were looking at serious development time. Custom firmware, building out your own […]