Being the sort of person who solves a problem by dismantling something nearby, Love reached for a dead disposable vape to harvest the parts. The penny had dropped – a disposable vape doesn’t really need to be disposed of. Most of the early attempts went nowhere, in the way that most tinkering does, but the airflow sensor kept nagging away at her. The synth lives inside the old vape shell, and you play it by sucking on it, the same way you used the vape. It took three people in New York with a bag of dead disposable vapes to make that obvious.