Another change is that instead of the printed circuit board it has an aluminum plate to better dissipate the heat from the regulator. The goal is to create a product that lasts several decades in regular use, and the rule of thumb is that for every additional 10 C the useful life is reduced by half.

It's probably not the final shape of the base, I'm already thinking of a third prototype that needs less sanding! 🤧.

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There are days when you wake up feeling a bit like Jony Ive, except for the tolerances 😂🙈.

This is the base of the second prototype of the Portuaria I'm working on now. The change in shape is to give more visual weight to the base with respect to the ceramic screen, because in the previous prototype I didn't like how that relationship turned out.

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New ceramic lampshade design. Apart from the fact that the piece deformed when drying and that I sawed and sanded it after firing, it turned out "acceptable".

I like the fit between the wooden rod and the ceramic. The thermal design got a little worse; it now works at 1 or 2 degrees warmer than before.

And what I liked least is that now the lamp head is very large in relation to the base 🤨. So I have to think about how to fix this 🤔.

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