starting small
LOFI Design ltd.
LOFI is a small startup outdoor equipment design & manufacturing company based in Cardigan, Wales, with the aim of simplifying life outdoors and respecting the environment. Setup by Jonny T, the brand is launching with the LOFI stove and has other products in the pipeline depending on the stove’s success.
Jonny has been designing and making things all of his life.
Starting in his backyard at home in Somerset as a kid, and continuing through college in the late 90s, where he designed halogen bike lights for mountain biking on dark winter nights. At university, he studied manufacturing engineering and designed a passively cooled silent computer. After moving to Cornwall, he started a company called Driftwood Skateboards, where he made some of the best composite slalom longboards available, many of which are still being enjoyed today.
In more recent years, he has worked on multiple micro-hydro installations in Wales and played a key role in developing a digital Braille display for Bristol Braille Technology. Launched in 2019, it was a laptop-sized electromechanical display with around 1,000 moving parts.
During the 2020 pandemic lockdown, he started exploring a project that had been on the back burner for a while… fire! With time on his hands, he experimented with ways to make burning sticks and wood a more reliable way of cooking food while out on hikes and walks. Playing around with clockwork mechanisms and micro steam engines wasn’t too successful, but eventually he came up with a design that was worth exploring…
designed in the UK
made in Wales
All our stoves are designed and made in our workshop in West Wales, using a Hydraulic press with customised tooling and rivets, CNC machines, Bench Drills, and solder stations for the electronics.
The welded titanium parts and PCBs are too technical for us to make in-house, so these are made in China for us to then process and fully assemble in-house.
Get in touch
Please send me an email, or chat with Jonny on Instagram.
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