Former Lab

Former Lab is building computing for people who want to own it — hardware in your hand, software on your terms, and community infrastructure that works when the grid does not.

GAP OS runs 15 daemons on the House device. 40+ Capsules are already live.

The human is the origin of trust.

Based in Sweden | European Union 🇪🇺

We are building Drocket, House, Bricks, and GAP OS — a modular sovereign computing ecosystem of devices, protocols, capsules, and local nodes designed to outlast platforms.

Principles

Hardware is the honest layer

Software promises can be rewritten.

Hardware in your hands cannot.

We design systems that work because of what they are — not because of what a platform permits.

Privacy is architecture

We do not ask you to trust a policy.

We build systems where data stays local unless you intentionally send it. The difference is structural.

Infrastructure should be owned locally

Library nodes are placed within communities and maintained by people nearby.

Computing becomes something you can point to — not something you rent.

Calm technology lasts longer

The best tool is the one you stop thinking about.

We build for silence, reliability, and long service life — not dopamine loops.

Creators own what they make

Capsules are signed artifacts distributed across the mesh.

Your work belongs to your keys — not a platform's terms of service.

Small team, long bets

We do not optimize for rapid growth.

We optimize for ten-year integrity: tools you can rely on and a community that can maintain them.

Learn more

https://formerlab.eu