Pocket Mechanica / Brand Owner Files
The people behind the objects
Studios, designers, and brands treated as creative and mechanical identities rather than catalogues. The products are the evidence. Each file answers one question: what is this studio proving about pocket-scale mechanical interaction? Every new file appears here automatically.
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Zeus Plan: I Only Go By the Number
Terry founded Zeus Plan on his own birthday and defined it, in the founding letter, as a charity programme that happened to make objects. Fourteen months later the receipts are…
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Pangolin Studio: The Object No Factory Would Build
Maker file · China Pangolin Studio Every maker claims they will not compromise on complexity. Pangolin has a file that manufacturing refused. 穿山甲工作室 · chuān shān jiǎ Complexity as position…
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Freak Mech: Four Modes Exist, One Gets Used
Maker file · China Freak Mech The object arrives unfinished on purpose. Getting owners past the first mode is the unsolved half. 怪械 · guài xiè Four modes, one body…
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KADA EDC: Same Steel, Opposite Mass
Maker file · China KADA EDC Most makers change alloys to change feel. Yu changes voids. 于新熠 Jack Yu The impossible triangle Aesthetics first, declared [IMAGE SLOT — id: pm-kada-00-startrek-hero…
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GoBiggeR: Twenty Made, Five Released
Maker file · China GoBiggeR Thinking usually takes months. Modelling takes one or two days. DeeLonG 把玩循环性 · loopability No studio, no workshop [IMAGE SLOT — id: pm-gobigger-00-five-survivors — the…
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INSITU: The Fewest Parts That Still Work
A one-year-old studio in Chongqing whose two best-known objects are routinely played wrong — and which has declined to change either one. Reduce the base to the fewest parts that…
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Wanwu Studio: The Feel Is a Setting
Most makers ship a feel and ask you to like it. Wanwu ships the parameter that produces the feel, puts the spare parts in the box, and hands over the…
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YOLO Studio: Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Jianfeng ran an esports club before he made his first slider. His studio stamps one character — 樂, joy — on everything from PlayStation-button sliders to a jadeite guardian Buddha,…
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Fatboy EDC: The Motif Has To Carry Load
Don builds spinners out of a divination system, a Warring States coin, and the twelve hours of the Chinese day. The claim is not that the reference is beautiful. It…
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BP Mods: The Object Belongs to the Owner
Bruce spent seventeen years as a professional fighter and a career building vape hardware. His sliders make an argument most of the category rejects: that precision feel is a production…
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01EDC: Return to Zero, Begin From One
The approachable entry into modern slider mechanics — modular shells, magnetic structures, dense tracks.
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Hope Studio: Kinetic Theatre That Refuses to Get Bigger
Kinetic theatre at pocket scale — the studio that pioneered the mini open-shell spinner.