Craftpine

Craftpine

A research and development studio in Toronto. Every program is published in full, including the ones we close.

Since April 2026

The studio has run two programs. Corner ran 76 days, from April 30 to July 14, and closed. Its study of a store at 520 Barton, in Hamilton, was published the next day. Terrasope began in August and is paused.

Apr 30Corner's firstcommitJun 10Attack pass on themoney loop, all heldJun 30Unattended checkoutfor 520 Barton shipsJul 9First live charge,$1.99Jul 14Corner closed,day 76Jul 15520 Barton studypublishedAug 12Terrasope spike,31 of 31 checksSep 10Terrasope benchwork stopsCorner, 76 daysApr 30Corner's first commitJun 10Money loop attack pass, all heldJun 30Unattended checkout for 520 BartonJul 9First live charge, $1.99Jul 14Corner closed, day 76Jul 15520 Barton study publishedAug 12Terrasope spike, 31 of 31 checksSep 10Terrasope bench work stops
Dates from the close-out ledger and the program reports. The spacing is not to scale.

Corner

Corner was the studio's first program. It built software for Toronto corner stores and planned an unattended store of its own at 520 Barton Street in Hamilton. On July 14 the store plan closed and the software was parked.

The Corner bench kiosk, a small touchscreen on a wooden bench, showing a tap-to-order drink menu

Program · Closed July 14, 2026

Corner

Payments and inventory for Toronto corner stores. It took a live charge, then closed on the numbers.

How it worked and why it closed
Aerial view of the corner of Barton Street and Dewitt Road: the two-storey building, its lot, and cars queued at the signal

Corner's store study · July 15, 2026

520 Barton

Could an unattended store with no staff pay for itself on one Hamilton corner? Eight concepts entered the study and none survived.

The study on one page
Read the 520 Barton study in full
On the web · 9 chapters, 4 appendicesDownload the PDF
59 pages · 11 MB

Terrasope

The second program began in August 2026 and is paused at the bench stage.

BoreSampleReadDecideRecordbuilt

Program · Paused September 2026

Terrasope

Mineral sensing for ground with no GPS, no satellite link and no people. Only the record layer is built so far.

Where it stands

Preprint

When is the mean of a folder's file embeddings enough? Where a folder mixes images and texts, the mean loses its minority modality.

A few vectors for a mixed folder
Version 1 · October 6, 2026