The Evolution of Our Smart LED Lamp
- Alexander Grabowski
- Mar 22, 2026
- Engineering
Product development is iteration. Our smart LED lamp has been through several major design revisions — each one informed by testing, thermal analysis, and manufacturing constraints. Here’s a look at how the design evolved.
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Reverse-Engineering Our Spectrophotometer with Claude
- Alexander Grabowski
- Mar 18, 2026
- Engineering
Our integrating sphere — the HPCS 6500 spectrophotometer — is a critical piece of equipment for LED development. It measures everything we need: luminous flux, color temperature (CCT), color rendering index (CRI), chromaticity coordinates, full spectrum analysis from 380–1050nm, and electrical parameters like power, power factor, and harmonics.
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Our Automated Test Bench is Live
- Alexander Grabowski
- Mar 11, 2026
- Engineering
One of the biggest bottlenecks in power electronics R&D is testing. Manually sweeping through voltage and current setpoints, recording readings, and calculating efficiency at each operating point is slow, error-prone, and mind-numbing. So we automated it.
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When the Ping River Came to Our Lab
- Alexander Grabowski
- Oct 5, 2024
- News
In the first week of October 2024, the Ping River peaked at 5.3 meters at Nawarat Bridge — 1.6 meters above the 3.7-meter overflow threshold. Chiang Mai flooded. Our interim lab took it hard.
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