#madeinnz — Public Fediverse posts

"'New Zealand used to have shoe factories. They were all over the country, until they weren’t. Now, New Zealand-made shoes feels like a distant memory, like carless days, a top-bracket tax rate of 66% and The Video Dispatch. We went from having 95% of our footwear made locally in the late 1980s to only 5% by 2008. These days it’s certainly even less than that."

#Aotearoa #NZHistory #Shoes #Shoemakers #Footwear #MadeInNZ

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/09-05-2026/whos-still-making-footwear-in-aotearoa

so my friend hosted a virtual music festival on something called Cyberdoof 💃 🌈 🌱

https://youtu.be/f4d0L5DN7b8

was absolutely bonkers 🐿️ 🦆 🦥

#Music #ElectronicMusic #DJ #MagicaVoxel #Cyberdoof #MadeinNZ

Prototyping a folding room screen. Using the corner brackets, and grid hinges.

#madewithgridkit #gridbeam #furnituredesign #diy #modular #madeinnz

Joel made this pattern that you can layout on your sheet of plywood to mark the centers of the holes with a center punch. It also has lines indicating the different 3,4,5 triangles you can make with Grid beams.

#madewithgridkit #gridbeam #diy #modular #patterns #madeinnz #pattern

Stack of raw material ready to go into the workshop. Easy to store and then cut to 1220-1230. Gauging from our supplier is real nice. Most are 40.1 +- 0.1mm

If we were to have 100% efficacy we'd have 1666 1.2m beams.

#madewithgridkit #gridbeam #modular #diy #furnituredesign #circulareconomy #madeinnz

New angle brackets have been sent off for prototyping. Excited to test them out!

#madewithgridkit #gridbeam #diy #modular #madeinnz

Need a little gift for someone?

My coin purses are the perfect wee present, small and light, they’re easy to post. They’re also the perfect way of presenting special tiny treasures that you want to keep protected.
Available in two sizes.

https://www.thesewphist.com/product-category/wallets-purses/coin/

#MadeInAoNZ #MadeInNZ #BuyNZMade