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Preview of Bloom Ring
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: Build a ring that expands and contracts
One link of an expanding ring: two 50 mm arms kinked at 150 degrees. Pin twelve pairs at their kinks and join the pairs end to end with M3 screws, and the ring breathes from a tight crown to a ring twice as wide when you pull it open. A kinetic centrepiece and a lesson in angulated scissors.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Helix Spindle
By Krypto
Complexity
Simple
MAIN PURPOSE: Twist stacked discs into a changing sculpture
A sculpture you play with: oval discs with an off-centre hole thread onto an 8 mm dowel. Turn each a few degrees past the last and the stack twists into a helix; push them about and it becomes a wave, a fan or a column. The Swivel Post socket makes a ready base.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Gyre Lantern
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: Fan ribs into a hanging globe lantern
A lantern that folds flat: twelve crescent ribs bolt together through the eyes at both tips. Closed, it is a single 214 mm crescent; spin the ribs round the axis and they open into a globe that hangs from its top bolt around a battery fairy light, casting a striped shadow.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Observatory Beam
By Krypto
Complexity
Multi-part assembly
MAIN PURPOSE: Throw a turnable blade of light across the ceiling
A night light with an observatory roof. Set an LED puck on the round base and lower the drum over it: light escapes only through the slit in the roof, throwing one sharp blade of light up the wall and across the ceiling, and turning the drum on its base sweeps the blade round the room like a telescope dome turning to a new star.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Rosace
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: Throw coloured light through window tracery
A window rose for sunlight. Tape coloured acetate or tissue behind the seven round lights, hang it on a thread in a sunny window, and the twelve-lobed tracery throws a pool of coloured light across the room as the sun moves, like a rose window in a small church.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Hypar Lamp
By Krypto
Complexity
Simple
MAIN PURPOSE: Stretch fabric into a glowing saddle roof
A tensile lamp you finish with a scrap of stretch fabric. Two diagonal columns stand tall and two stay low; hook the corners of a square of old tights or lycra over the four tops and the fabric pulls into a saddle, a hyperbolic paraboloid like a tent roof, glowing over an LED puck on the floor.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Wayback Rose
By Krypto
Complexity
Simple
MAIN PURPOSE: Catch keys in a dish aimed at your hometown
A compass-rose key dish that points home. Set it by the front door with its long north arm aimed at the town you came from, and drop keys into the eight-point bowl; the underside is engraved with that place's coordinates. A quiet present for anyone who has moved away or is about to.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Thankwell
By Krypto
Complexity
Simple
MAIN PURPOSE: Collect a daily note of thanks inside a column
A tall gratitude stele with a slot in its crown. Write one thing you are thankful for on a slip of paper each day, fold it and post it in; on New Year's Eve lift the column off its notes and read the year back. The front carries the year and a short line. Print it as shown, then turn it over so the floor becomes the top.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Elsewhere
By Krypto
Complexity
Simple
MAIN PURPOSE: Frame a postcard of your next trip in a doorway
A doorway to the next place you are going. A 150 mm block has an arched door cut through its face, and a postcard dropped into the slot behind fills the doorway with Kyoto, a beach or a mountain. Swap the card when the plan changes; the lintel names the destination.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Starfix
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: Show a constellation with a dedication
The seven stars of the Plough, the constellation people have navigated by for centuries, pierced through the face of a 150 mm block with the name and a date beneath. Drop an LED tealight or puck in through the open top and the stars glow; choose the night that matters (the first trip, the proposal).
AR view Open in app

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