About Us

AB Electronics UK was founded in 2012 by two brothers, Andrew and Brian Dorey.

Andrew first trained in IT and fixing electronics, working for an electronics repair business before moving into graphic design.

Brian repaired appliances like washing machines and household electrical items before moving into the retail market and then into the IT world.

Since 1998, we have run a web design company called Apexweb. At the same time, we kept up our love for electronics. We built many things for fun and for our homes and you can find many of these projects on the website www.briandorey.com.

In the last few years, we started using popular boards like the Arduino and the Raspberry Pi. We used them to build a system that checks the solar power setup at our home, helping us run part of our house off the main power grid.

We wrote a blog post about one of these projects and a popular website called Hackaday shared our post. After that, many people asked us where they could buy the circuit boards we used, so we decided to sell these boards and other related parts in our own shop.