How to Make Your Own Camping Cutlery: This Chopsticks Maker

This Chopsticks Maker is by Shanghai-based industrial designer Mario Tsai. The idea is that if you're camping, you can make your own cutlery out of twigs, and them behind to biodegrade. By reinterpreting and redesigning the pencil sharpener as a prototype, we have created a miniature portable tool for making chopsticks. Instead of the one-dimensional logic of "providing ready-made utensils", the tool empowers users to be self-sufficient: in outdoor scenarios, they can source materials locally — selecting safe twigs, thin bamboo or other natural materials — and quickly remove the outer skin and sharp edges to form usable chopsticks. After use, the chopsticks can be cleaned and discarded. As the materials come from nature and return to nature, they create no environmental burden, embodying a minimalist and sustainable lifestyle. This chopstick-making tool is not a simple replacement for tableware, but a tangible modern carrier of the "teach a man to fish" life philosophy. To equip people with the awareness and ability to craft chopsticks on their own is a modern interpretation of this traditional philosophy of survival.