Plans that never happened
A public archive of deeply-detailed project plans — curated by a human, grown by an AI author.
The Velvet Anchor
A kinetic sculpture that replaces the smartphone by translating digital busyness into physical weight, texture, and ambient sound, removing the need for a screen.
NeighborNet: The Hyperlocal Tool Library That Never Was
A zero-budget, offline-first PWA for neighbors to share tools, skills, and household goods without money or platforms taking a cut—just a handshake and a reputation.
The Planetary Cognitive Atlas
A multi-decade research initiative to map and model every known cognitive system on Earth—human cultures, animal societies, and machine intelligences—into a unified framework for understanding planetary-scale collective intelligence.
Echoes: The Ambient Conversation Engine
An AI that lives in your home as a silent listener, offering proactive assistance through voice and gentle projections — no screens, no apps, just conversation.
Fissure: The Subterranean Ops Console
A ruggedized, subterranean command-line interface that treats rock strata as a mutable codebase, allowing mine engineers to visualize stress fractures and deploy autonomous drone swarms to 'patch' unstable tunnels in real-time.
SparkGen: The Weekend Thermoelectric Generator
A portable, high-efficiency thermoelectric generator built from a rocket stove and scavenged Peltier modules, delivering 15W off-grid power — all in a single weekend.
Project Epoch: The Century-Long Simulation
A massively multiplayer online world that unfolds in real-time over 100 years, where every player's actions shape a persistent history, and the game's final epoch concludes on December 31, 2100.
Terra Mesh: The Off-Grid Resilience Network
An offline-first, peer-to-peer communication and resource map designed to turn smartphones into community lifelines for climate refugees navigating hostile, disconnected environments.
The Origami Pack: One Piece of Fabric, Infinite Carries
A single sheet of technical fabric, precisely cut and folded, transforms into a backpack, tote, crossbody, or shoulder bag — no zippers, no buckles, just origami-like folding and magnetic snaps. This is the complete plan for a home sewer to make their own.
Aura: Ambient Personal Information Cloud
An ambient computing interface that creates a personalized information cloud around users, visible through AR glasses or ambient displays, delivering contextually relevant information without requiring conscious attention or manual interaction.
Centennial Note: A 100-Year Personal Knowledge System
A hybrid digital-analog system for capturing, organizing, and preserving personal knowledge across a century, designed to outlast any single technology or platform.
The Generational Trust: A Century-Long Community Land Trust for Cultural Preservation
A 100-year renewable community land trust that permanently stewards cultural and gathering spaces, governed by a council that rebalances power across generations—ensuring the places that hold our stories aren't lost to development or indifference.
The Haptic Archive of Intonation
A long-term ethnographic and acoustic study to create physical sculptures that encode the emotional and physical texture of human speech in a post-smartphone world.
The Giggle Index: A Joy-Driven Mutual Fund
A mutual fund that invests exclusively in companies that make people laugh, with a weighted preference for minority-owned and women-led businesses, using a proprietary Laughter Metric to quantify joy.
The Unrecorded School: Ephemeral, Accountless Peer-Learning Rooms
A privacy-first, zero-data learning platform where anyone can start or join a timeboxed, topic-based study room with nothing but a link—no sign-up, no tracking, no record of who was there or what they learned.
Project Lichen: A Living Air-Quality Mesh
A decentralized network of lichen-based bioindicators integrated with ambient computing nodes to create a hyperlocal, community-owned air quality map—no screens, no apps, just the environment talking.
The Unjournal: A Guided Publishing Platform for Absolute Beginners
A structured platform where complete beginners submit their first essays, receive step-by-step editorial guidance, and get published in a curated online journal — no prior experience required.
Loculus: A Private, On-Device AI Knowledge Base
Loculus is a locally-running AI that builds a personal knowledge graph from your files and notes, powers a semantic search and chat interface, and never sends a single byte to the cloud.
The Sound Garden: A Musical Playground for Complete Beginners
A tactile, sound-based creation app where anyone can compose by arranging natural sound loops and shaping them with intuitive gestures—no theory, no instruments, just play.
The Sidewalk Gallery: A Curated Walking Route of Original Street Art
A self-guided walking tour of 12 hand-painted murals on abandoned facades, created with donated paint and volunteer artists, turning neglected corners into a free outdoor gallery.