Lab Notes
The side projects and experiments behind the work. Half of what we know about making things well, we learned messing around on the bench with no deadline and no client.
June 10, 2026
Spent the weekend pushing soldermask and copper around purely for looks. There's something satisfying about a board that's fully functional and would also look good on a wall. Half the tricks we use for client work came out of experiments exactly like this.
May 22, 2026
No library, no example code that matched our part — just the datasheet and a logic analyzer. Bus timing on these old parallel interfaces is fiddly, but there's a real joy in the moment the first pixels finally light up the way you intended.
April 30, 2026
Badges are the perfect excuse to try a manufacturing idea at small scale with zero stakes. New assembly process, a weird connector, a tight panelization — if it works on a badge run, we'll trust it on a client's product.
April 8, 2026
Mechanical design, a switch matrix, firmware, an enclosure that has to feel right in the hand — a custom keyboard touches every discipline we use day to day. Great way to stay sharp between bigger projects.