Kandiwooks

kandi, gadgets & little tools for festival people.

Handmade sprouts and beads out of Seattle, plus the free apps we build for the same crowd. Made by people who are usually at the show too.

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Kandiwooks logo: the word Kandiwooks with flower sunglasses for the two O's and a sprout growing from the I

The projects

Things we wanted at a festival and couldn't find. Free, and built to work with no signal.

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KandiTag

NFC kandi beads · web, iPhone

Kandi beads with a story. Tap one with your phone and see everywhere it's been: every show, every trade, every photo the people who wore it left behind.

Open KandiTag Get the beads · from $6
KandiTag showing a bead named Stardust with its passport of shows and trail of posts
Live

Set Times

Festival schedules · web app

Every set on every stage, night by night. Pick yours, put them on your lock screen as a wallpaper, and get an alarm before each one. Works after the signal dies.

Open Set Times The open data behind it
Set Times showing the Lost Lands 2026 Friday grid with picked sets highlighted
In the works

Firefly

Festival compass puck · open hardware

A palm-sized puck with an arrow that points at your friends over LoRa mesh radio. Off-grid messages, set alarms, a map of the grounds. Your phone stays at camp. First field test: Lost Lands, Sep 18–20.

Follow the build on GitHub
Firefly's round screen showing the radar face with an arrow pointing toward a crew member

There's always something else on the bench. This page grows when it ships.

Fresh from the shop

On a festival break ยท back after Lost Lands
Excision T-Rex Skull Spring Sprout
Excision T-Rex Skull Spring Sprout
sprout$2.50
Excision Inspired X Logo Fidget Spinner
Excision Inspired X Logo Fidget Spinner
fidget$9.00
Drink Me Spring Sprout
Drink Me Spring Sprout
sprout$2.50
Beyond Wonderland at the Gorge Fidget Spinner
Beyond Wonderland at the Gorge Fidget Spinner
fidget$8.00
Cool S 2000's Nostalgia Rave Sprout
Cool S 2000's Nostalgia Rave Sprout
sprout$2.00
We're All Mad Teacup Stack Sprout
We're All Mad Teacup Stack Sprout
sprout$4.00
Eat Me Cake Sprout
Eat Me Cake Sprout
sprout$3.00

Sprouts, focal beads, and fidgets, all hand-made in small batches. New ones show up here as they land.

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Who we are

We're Jake and Tay: Seattle transplants from Illinois, and high school sweethearts who fell for the rave scene at our first show together, Basshunter at Zero Gravity in Naperville.

Tay designs the sprouts and makes the kandi. Jake writes the software. We full-sent into making weird stuff for festival people and haven't looked back.

Tay and Jake on the lawn at the Gorge, the Columbia River behind them, Jake holding a flag
Us, at the Gorge