The component
An electronic part that already exists and is sold ready: an e-ink tag, a small board, a screen. Anyone can buy it, in any country. We say which one, and we never sell it.
Apps for products built by local makers. We write the app. Makers print the case, add an off-the-shelf component and sell the product where they live.
component + case + app = product
Every Pantekton product has the same anatomy. Pantekton does not manufacture, stock or ship anything. It writes the software, publishes the files and keeps the makers together.
An electronic part that already exists and is sold ready: an e-ink tag, a small board, a screen. Anyone can buy it, in any country. We say which one, and we never sell it.
Printed in 3D by a local workshop, from files we publish under an open license. The maker assembles the product, activates it and sells it in the marketplaces of their own country.
Written by us. It is what turns the parts into a product: the phone talks to the component directly, with no account and no cloud. The app is free to try; a one-time activation unlocks the whole of it.
Pingente, by Pantekton
A small e-ink tag that lives on a keychain, a fridge or a desk. Your phone drops the information on it by Bluetooth, and it stays there for weeks on a coin cell: weather, tides, a note, a QR code, the headline of the day. No account. No cloud.
In the workshop. The next products follow the same anatomy: a component you can buy, a case a maker can print, an app we write. We name them when they are real.
If you run a 3D printing workshop, you can make and sell Pantekton products in your city, with your name on them. No franchise, no fee, no exclusivity.
Cases and parts are published as STL and 3MF, free, under a license that allows selling.
We tell you exactly which model and where it is sold in your country, with the rules that apply there.
Activate the products in batch from the app, so the person who buys from you never pays anything else.
In your marketplace, your shop or your neighborhood, with the maker seal next to your name.
Interested? Write to contact@pantekton.app and tell us your city and what you print. The first product is Pingente; we are gathering the first workshops now.
παντέκτων
pantéktōn · pan-TEK-ton
From the Greek pan, all, and tekton, the craftsman who builds: the root of architect and tectonic. "The builder of everything." The word is attested on the Mycenaean tablets of Pylos, in Linear B, as pa-te-ko-to.
The builder of everything is not one person. It is many hands in many places, each making the part they make best, and one app that fits them together.