Products made to stay yours.

HEYLOLA is a small workshop in Romania. We 3D print objects for the home, to order, and build projects of our own alongside: a modular lamp, a timing system for off-road races and the La Gazdă guide.

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STRAT, the lamp

STRAT, from above

race-tracker, the timing

Lola, the name

In the shop, now.

Casă. Small objects for every day.

Wall hooks, a holder that grips a towel without a loop, a headphone stand that clamps to the edge of the desk, with no holes, and bag clips. We print them in matte PLA after you order, in colours such as sand, terracotta or graphite.

The models belong to authors who gave us a commercial licence. Our part is the printing and the checking of every piece, one by one.

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The workbench at night: the lamp's printed parts, a few magnets, a small board and a pair of hands pressing a magnet into a black frame.

Two people, an apprentice and a labrador.

Ovidiu draws the form and writes the code. Elena takes every part in her hands before it reaches you. Lola, the labrador, gave the name, and Claude is the apprentice who does not get tired.

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STRAT, a lamp in progress.

A modular bedside lamp: magnetically held layers, 3D printed in Romania, no cloud.

It is still a prototype: it has no price and no launch date. It has a waiting list for the first batch, which will be small.

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Modular.: It builds vertically, layer by layer. Every layer is a separate part, which you take off by hand.
Magnetically held.: The layers attach magnetically, in a single orientation, and the base recognises on its own what you have put on it.
3D printed in Romania.: In small batches, to order, on a single printer.
In your network.: Everything the lamp does happens inside your home, on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W with ESPHome, an open firmware. It asks for no account and has no subscription.

At night, in a dark bedroom: a bare foot steps down from the bed onto the wooden floor, and the lamp on the nightstand dimly lights the floor in amber.

race-tracker, a timing system in progress.

Automatic timing for friendly ATV, enduro and SSV races. Every vehicle carries two battery-free tags, a reader stands at every checkpoint, and the passings become laps and a live leaderboard. The app already runs end to end with simulated readers; the first real reader comes next.

About race-tracker

What we believe in.

Products with a story.

STRAT started from an ordinary night: someone gets out of bed in the dark, feels for the switch, turns on a light that is too bright and wakes everyone up. The next day, on paper, there was a lamp that sees the floor and lights only as much as needed.

That is how we want everything we make to begin: with a moment in someone's life. If we cannot say in two sentences why a product exists, we do not make it.

A good object lets itself be forgotten.

A good object makes your day a little easier and then leaves you alone. A hook holds the bag. A lamp comes on when you get out of bed and goes off after you have lain back down, and in the morning the phone is charged where you left it.

We count the moments when it helped you without you noticing. If after a month you have forgotten the lamp is smart, we did it right.

Care for the environment.

The greenest product is the one you do not have to replace. We print only after you have ordered, on a single printer, in Romania, so we keep no stock and throw away nothing that did not sell. Most parts are made of PLA, a plastic made from plant starch.

In STRAT, every layer is a separate part. If something breaks, we replace the part and the lamp stays. If in two years you want more light, you add another slice. We prefer a product that lasts ten years to one that sells well for a season.

Have a question or a project?

Write to us at ovidiu@heylola.ro. There are two of us, so one of us will answer.

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