Rocket Man Designs / Physical & digital
From the way a stove burns to the way a community connects. RMD is a design-centred platform exploring useful responses to the things that matter.
01 / Working with the physical world
02 / Finding a clearer viewThe thread through the work
A stove has to work with heat, air and fuel. A dashboard has to make complicated information readable. A website has to help someone find their way.
The tools and tests are different. The habit is familiar: look closely, ask what is getting in the way, make something useful, and learn from what happens next.
A little more about RMDIdeas with something to do
01Clean combustion & physical products
Stoves, burners and biomass systems: physical designs shaped by fuel, materials and the conditions people use them in. Cleaner combustion is the aim; testing is how we find out what works.
Explore the engineering02Minyon Solar · private monitoring project
Solar generation, batteries, demand and the grid can be hard to see as a whole. Minyon Solar brings those readings into a shared view, with charts that help make sense of the moving parts.
See the solar project
03Modeller / Burn Lab · exploratory tool
A browser workspace for stove geometry and prescribed heat-and-draft studies. A way to compare assumptions and explore a design, while keeping measured testing and model validation firmly in view.
Meet Burn LabA little closer to home
Local resilience starts with people knowing one another, sharing what they know and finding ways to help. Digital tools can support that everyday work.
The Minyon Resilience Network, its developing dashboard and PermaBrella explore different parts of this picture: community information, shared resources and places to connect.
Explore the community projectsStart with what matters
A product, a useful tool, a community idea or a website ready for its next chapter. Tell us about the concern behind the brief.
