Commission a Kancil Device

22 June 2025

Updated on 25 June 2025

Commission a Kancil Device

If you want to support and experience alternative digital futures, consider commissioning your own device. Please drop me an email!

Mesh-Internet-Collaboration-in-a-Box

Small, portable, device that creates a wifi-network to enable connected devices to collaborate - chat, co-edit documents, share files - locally with the internet. Unlike most other internet-in-a-box devices, it will also:

Create a repository to enable other Android and Mac/Window devices to become their own "Internet-Collaboration-in-a-Box"
Combines mesh-networking (to create a large interconnected network) using 802.11s wifi and Meshtastic LoRa

Rhythm Media: Slow-Media Device

Before internet streaming, we weren't overwhelmed with endless content, brain rot and doomscrolling. Today, we can demand any media, all media, at anytime, anywhere to entertain you, and swipe over to the next content right away.

Instead, what if we could personalize content but set things to its own rhythm?

Your favorite TV show still streams, but only at 8pm Thursday night. If you missed it, sorry, you'll have to wait for the reruns...
You experience an artist's music album from the first to last track. You can't skip ahead. Instead of pogo sticking between to just the bits you like or just tell Spotify to create your playlist.

Your own Private Spotify: Cloud-based Owned Media

How could can we combine the accessibility of streaming media like music on the go with ownership? Today, Spotify could drop certain your artists from their platform or worse slowly creep in AI slop over paying artists. (yes, its happening now).

Imagine a device that stores your owned media and allows streaming to your devices

Device that quickly saves your owned media, be it digital files to CDs or even cassettes tapes, into something your phone, laptop or bluetooth speaker can access? Your own private Spotify server.

Turn your random bookmarks and saved PDFs into Knowledge Systems

Kancil Devices: Materials and Form

While I enjoy going low-tech, low-skill DIY design, here are some aesthetic designs I'd like to explore when to comes to digital devices. Interesting in helping build alternative design languages and forms? Let me know?