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Building the fan (on paper first)

Studio · · 5 min read

Top-down view of a workbench with graph-paper sketches of a six-bladed fan and coil diagrams, a pencil, a coil of copper wire and a coffee mug

The fan went through four designs before it looked like something a sixteen-year-old could actually rebuild in a shed, winding the coils himself.

We kept the ugliest version. Competence in this story is real but unglamorous — it should look welded, not manufactured.

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