Frustrated with the prices for high quality grow light systems? Let’s design a fully controllable, easy to adjust, open-source LED panel.

In the kale-filled facility at vertical farm startup Bowery Farming, it’s a piece of proprietary software that makes most of the critical decisions — like when to harvest and how much to water each plant. But it still takes humans to carry out many tasks around the farm. Katie Morich, 25, loves the work. But as roboticists make gains, will her employer need her forever?

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I bought an interesting looking grow light on eBay and after buying one I was sent a nearly identical failed unit. Let’s take a look at the LED panel and the driver of the failed one to see what happened.

Those caps are leaking Chinesium.

I’ve looked at a similar light to this before, but it seems to have evolved to being a mass produced item complete with clamshell style packaging for stacking on shelves.