:: prototypes
Here are some images of the many different prototypes made for the DolceRadio. There are a biscuit version and a chocolate version. Both versions are fully working radios.

 

Cutting the tiles for the biscuit DolceRadio.

 

The biscuit DolceRadio. The buttons are made of chocolate, and they are wrapped as candy.

 

Sketches for the DolceRadio, and the positive model made of plaster.

 

Assemblage and soldering of the internal circuit of the radio.

 

The final internal electrical and structural skeleton and a simple test with chocolate bars.

 

Negative mold made with silicon and melted chocolate for the shell of the radio.

 

Opening the mold after the chocolate shell is hard, and the final result.

 

Rubber molds for the buttons. There are two different sizes, and it was quite hard to avoid internal bubbles...

 

A button ready for use and one invalid due an internal bubble. The first radio of chocolate made, with light from inside.

 

The DolceRadio in a exhibition and Maya biting it.