Arrowspace S1
Spoot: Spotted Early keeps Arrowspace S1 in one place: 2 stories so far. The section currently leads with “This Screwdriver Sniffs Out the Right Bit and Lights the Way” and “Arrowmax puts a tiny camera in your screwdriver so it can ID the bit for you”. Tiny screws have a knack for making simple repairs feel surprisingly complicated. There's a tiny camera living inside Arrowmax's new screwdriver, and it's not there for selfies. Spoot: Spotted Early New things, caught while they're still new and a little weird. Spoot finds fresh gadgets, clever inventions, crowdfunding campaigns,… The list below is every Arrowspace S1 story on Spoot: Spotted Early, newest first.
This Screwdriver Sniffs Out the Right Bit and Lights the Way
Tiny screws have a knack for making simple repairs feel surprisingly complicated. You sit down to open a laptop, only to discover that choosing the wrong bit strips the head and turns a five-minute job into a quiet crisis. Arrowspace watched that happen one too many times and built the S1 Screwdriver Kit, which scans the screw and lights up the correct bit before you touch it. It is a small, specific kind of intelligence, the sort that belongs inside a tool, not a phone app. The kit comes with a dock that charges the driver and stores the bits, and the whole thing feels like the endgame for people who own more than one tiny Phillips head.
Arrowmax puts a tiny camera in your screwdriver so it can ID the bit for you
There's a tiny camera living inside Arrowmax's new screwdriver, and it's not there for selfies. It stares at the bit you just clicked in, runs the image through some AI, and tells you exactly what you're holding, size, type, everything. No more squinting at worn markings or swapping five bits until one finally doesn't wobble. That trial-and-error phase is gone, which also means fewer stripped screws and less swearing at a repair that should have been simple. Arrowmax is funding the Arrowspace S1 on Kickstarter, they've done this before, so the risk feels manageable, and a standalone driver runs about $79. It's a clever, almost fussy upgrade to a tool nobody thought needed a brain. Then again, nobody thought a lamp needed to poke its nose into a wood stove either, until Oru made one.