The Capsule - Issue 003: All Things New
Published 1st August 2026
The Narrator here at Re-Build. Last month, we brought you close to The Studio. This month, we are showing you what has come out of it. July brought a new way to meet Re-Build, a new home for our work, a new product story, and a new series about the decisions behind the things we build. This issue is all things new.
01. Build Hard Things — The Re-Build Trailer
This month, we released our first official company trailer. Let us introduce you to some of the people, studio, tools, and work behind Re-Build. It is a first look at the process of turning ambitious ideas into hardware that works, from the earliest sketches and conversations to fabrication, testing, and working products. For anyone meeting Re-Build for the first time, this trailer is a good start into our work.
02. A New Home for Our Work
Our new website is live! We redesigned it to make Re-Build easier to understand, explore, and reach. We've brought our products, pillars, processes, programmes, and people into one place, while giving you a clearer path to begin a project or start a conversation with us. Building something ambitious? Bring us the problem, the sketch or the system that needs to work better. We will help you identify the most practical path forward.
03. Made by Re-Build: Sentra
Farmers cannot respond early to a change they cannot yet see. This month, we introduced Sentra, a compact solar-powered crop intelligence device designed to help farmers see crop stress sooner. Built for Smartel Agri-Tech, Sentra uses a rotating 360-degree camera to observe different parts of a farm from a single position. The system is being developed to collect information about crop conditions and make that information available through familiar mobile channels, including SMS. The goal is not simply to generate more data. It is to help farmers receive clearer information that can inform what they do next.
04. Introducing Design Notes
We also started Design Notes, a new series about the decisions that shape the products we build. The first two notes looked at Ankor and LiteClip. Each began with a practical question about how people work and how a small design decision could make that work easier. For LiteClip, the question was simple: how can light stay close to the task without occupying one of the user's hands?
Instead of creating another lamp that needed to be carried, we designed LiteClip with a clip mechanism that attaches to nearby tables, shelves, carts, and temporary work surfaces. The light stays close to the task while both hands remain available for the work itself. That small decision changed the entire interaction with the product.
05. A First Look at PadFlo
Oh and we teased PadFlo, a manual wall-mounted menstrual pad dispenser designed to release one pad at a time without electricity. It was developed around a straightforward goal: make period care easier to access in schools, clinics, and other shared spaces. Its flower-inspired turning knob is also the focus of one of our upcoming Design Notes. PadFlo will be available to view on our website as a subscriber of The Capsule. We will share more of its product and design story in the next issue, follow our socials to see its official reveal.
06. What Comes Next?
July gave us new ways to show you who we are, what we build, and how we think. Over the coming month, we will continue opening up the work through new products, Design Notes, Builder Stories, and a closer look at the people responsible for turning these ideas into working hardware. That is it from me this month.
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By The Narrator — Editorial · Published August 1, 2026
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