STERN
LABORATORIES
Solar pathway lights that don’t suck
Whether you buy them for a buck apiece at the dollar store or pay 20X more at a garden center, you’re always getting the same thing.
The same crappy plastic ground stake, eggshell-thin housing, and feeble, boring illumination that lasts maybe three hours past sunset.
Why hasn’t anyone made a solar pathway light with some blood in its veins?
That’s just the sort of consumer lament Stern Laboratories strives to smother in its cradle with a blanket of Science.
We started, as always, with the premise that these lights should be ridiculously over-engineered and practically indestructible.
This early prototype may look like a bunch of mismatched parts, but you could use it to beat an army of robot dinosaurs to death and it would still light the way from street to door for generations of your family.
But why should they only provide light? Why can’t they also helpfully point the way for your guests?
Maybe serve as a trellis for unkillable Morning Glory.
Or perhaps even pay tribute to a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
As new designs emerged, so did the concept of creating a platform for weekend DIY creativity.
After all, anyone can screw pipes together. What if we made a kit… with battery housings, LED lamps, and solar cells that all work together, and attach easily to the standard NPT pipe you can buy at any hardware store?
Introducing PV Punk: the solar light kit anyone can use to create extraordinary solar lights for your home and garden. You’ll never lose another pathway light to the lawnmower.
It’s the lawnmower’s turn to be afraid.
