About
An independent engineering company in Grove City, Ohio.
DIM8 Labs is a trade name of Dimension Eight Labs LLC. We design and build embedded hardware, firmware, and software for the web and mobile.
The company
What DIM8 Labs is
We build serious things.
We build ridiculous things.
We build ridiculous things seriously.
DIM8 Labs builds hardware, firmware, and software, from practical, requirements-driven engineering to odd internal projects that got finished properly anyway. The work spans embedded systems, the firmware that runs them, and the web and mobile software around them, including our own products.
The mark is a seven-segment 8, lit like the vacuum fluorescent displays we like working with. Eight is the digit with every segment on.
Why it exists
Complete things, built by hand
The most interesting problems sit on the line between hardware and software: a clock that has to know whether to trust its time source, a device that has to recover on its own, a sensor reading that needs qualifying before anything acts on it. DIM8 Labs exists to take that kind of work end to end (spec, bench, firmware, interface, documentation) and finish it.
It also exists to build things because they're interesting. A GPS-disciplined clock, a pinball table in a browser, an aquarium clock that keeps an eye on the bathroom. The same discipline applies to those, which is the whole point of the motto.
Experience
The engineer behind DIM8 Labs
Rob HaagOwner & Principal Engineer
Rob has worked in software and systems since 2009: production web applications and real-time APIs, a regulated healthcare application rebuilt and moved to geographically redundant AWS infrastructure, IoT and RFID hardware integration, and AWS infrastructure for a year-long platform rearchitecture.
Since 2021 that has run alongside hands-on electrical and electronic diagnostics on vehicles and heavy equipment, where the documentation is often incomplete and the answer comes from schematics, direct measurement, and systematic isolation. That habit carries straight into DIM8's embedded work.
Principles
How we work, briefly
Specific over shiny.
Part numbers, measurements, and constraints beat adjectives.
Document the system.
Architecture notes, state diagrams, and test results are part of the build, not cleanup afterwards.
Understand the failure modes.
Qualification, watchdogs, and recovery paths are designed in, then tested on purpose.
Build it to be maintained.
Someone else should be able to open it, build it, and fix it.
No dark patterns.
Software should do what it says, and nothing it doesn't.
Humor is allowed. Rigor is required.
A joke headline is fine, as long as the architecture diagram underneath is right.
Have a serious problem?Or a ridiculous one?
Embedded, firmware, or web. Tell us what it needs to do.