Riffle
A incense stick making machine.
By maintaining and amplifying the sense of ritual and "Tao" during incense making process, Riffle allows the user to focus on the spiritual enjoyment, creates a new concept of incense making.
Modern but also ritualistic
Material
selecting
Processing
Grinding
Matching
materials
Kneading
Extrusion
molding
Drying
In Eastern culture, the process of incense making is often linked to meditation, and associated with stress relief, heart nourishing and enlightenment, which encourage many people begin to use incense making for their body and mind cultivation.
Traditional incense making process
Exploration
By experiencing traditional incense making, I found some pain points in the incense making process and also some extensible aspects.
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Hard to find the materials.
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Processing is hard to learn.
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Kneading is easy to get people's hands dirty.
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Molding and drying is hard to control and time consuming.
Ideation
I decided to leave the steps of processing, kneading, extrusion molding & drying to the product, let the users focus on the processes of grinding and matching, enjoys the sense of ritual brought by the manual participation, feels the spiritual connotation of "Tao" conveyed during incense making. The whole ideas lead to a new way of incense making.
A new way of incense making
Make ingredients into material sticks for sale.
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Solving the difficulty of selecting ingredients.
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Extending the product's profit cycle.
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Use the way of filing to grind the bar.
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Emphasizing the meditation during incense making.
Ingredients
Capsule Coffee
Whet Knife
Grind Ink
Final Design
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CONTROL PANEL
Removable design helps daily cleaning; The top cover comes in a variety of roughness, allowing the user to grind particles into different sizes and change the odor effect
WAVE TEXTURE
It can be used as a storage slot for material bars and tools
MATERIAL BAR
Grind it on the grinder to add material into the machine. User can buy different bars according to their preference
INCENSE BOX
The finished incense sticks are served in it
CONTROL PANEL
Switch of the product, sieving, drying and ejection of the incense box
CARTRIDGES
Add the water and adhesive powder needed in incense making, one time addition can last long time
Interest in making incense
Users only need to concentrate on grinding raw materials and pay attention to the control of material proportions, and feel the process of materials slowly turning into fine sand and sliding into the machine in their hands.
