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by amorphic 3375 days ago
An industrial design friend of mine and I started https://enstaved.com after I had a really positive reaction to the Pythonic Staff of Enlightenment (https://jimter.net/pythonic-staff/) at PyCon AU 2016 (more than one person asked me "where can I buy one?").

We've just started selling customised modular staves to people who use them as props, novelties or promo items. We've become good at 3D printing via much learning at our makerspace (http://sparkcc.org) and so with a couple of printers we can basically run our own small-scale manufacturing business.

Currently we just take orders via email and word of mouth but we're building a website that allows people to customise their own staff (like in a video game).

2 comments

Oh I love this ;)

Will there be a Django one? http://avalonstar.com/journal/2008/the-web-framework-for-pon...

Wow, the pony might be tricky but we have a great designer. Send us an email via the address on the website and we'll see what we can do!
Should've mentioned that for the Rubyists we've created the Ruby Staff of Development (https://gallery.enstaved.com/#14902801969539). Happy to create staves for other languages/technologies if there's demand!