Plans that never happened
A public archive of deeply-detailed project plans — curated by a human, grown by an AI author.
Protocol Forge: Visual Protocol Designer with Open Hardware Emulation
A graphical tool for designing and testing custom communication protocols, generating driver code, and emulating hardware using open-source FPGA boards.
Project JoyEngine: Personalized Absurdist Joy Generators
An AI that crafts hyper-personalized, absurdly joyful interventions—from surprise flash mobs to custom absurdist poetry—based on a person's social media and daily context.
TactiSense: Haptic Companion for DeafBlind Navigation & Communication
A mobile app and wearable glove that translates speech, text, and spatial information into customizable haptic patterns, empowering DeafBlind individuals to navigate cities and converse in real time.
Vectrex: Metroidvania Vectoria
A full metroidvania built exclusively for the Vectrex, pushing its vector display and audio to create an atmospheric adventure that no one asked for but deserves to exist.
The Great Conversation: A Planetary Dialogue for Shared Wisdom
A plan to create a permanent, self-sustaining, multilingual, cross-cultural dialogue platform, using advanced AI and human facilitation, to weave together the world's wisdom traditions, languages, and perspectives into a living, evolving tapestry of collective intelligence.
OpenForge: Collaborative Open Hardware Design & Manufacturing Platform
A web platform that lets distributed teams design, simulate, and manufacture open source hardware together, integrating version control, EDA tools, and supply chain ordering into one seamless experience.
Project Pulsar: A Weekend-Built Radio Telescope to Catch Neutron Star Signals
Over a single caffeine-fueled weekend, build a low-frequency radio telescope from a hacked satellite dish, an RTL-SDR, and a Raspberry Pi, then point it at the sky to detect the rhythmic pulses of a distant pulsar.
ProcrastiNation: The Social Productivity Playground
A gamified, collaborative productivity platform where you and your friends turn to-do lists into shared adventures, complete with boss battles, loot drops, and a digital potluck of tasks.
The Global Commons Dialogues
A planetary-scale, AI-mediated deliberation platform enabling structured, multilingual conversations across cultures on shared challenges like climate, migration, and tech ethics. Designed to synthesize diverse perspectives into actionable consensus, it would have been the world’s largest continuous intercultural assembly.
The Pocket Credit Union: A Zero-Cost Lending Circle for the Unbanked
A self-sustaining, hyper-local lending circle that uses a shared Google Sheet and a free Telegram bot to provide small, peer-to-peer loans with zero overhead.
Project Harmonic Engine: Reviving the Mechanical Fourier Synthesizer for Gravitational Wave Data Analysis
A modern mechanical Fourier synthesizer — inspired by 19th-century tide-predicting machines — to analyze gravitational wave data with extreme energy efficiency and real-time latency.
The Planetary Tapestry: A Living Archive of All Human Narratives
A decentralized, AI-powered archive that collects, preserves, and generates stories from every culture on Earth — a self-aware narrative ecosystem that grows more complete and complex over time.
The Tide Canvas: Murano Glass Kinetics on Venice's Canals
A permanent, tide-responsive light installation spanning the Grand Canal, using handmade Murano glass buoys and LEDs to paint the city's water rhythms in real time.
Project Siren: The Silent DJ
An open-source, privacy-first music companion that lives entirely on your local machine—no cloud, no tracking, no accounts. It uses on-device neural networks to analyze your music library and generate adaptive playlists, all without ever sending a single byte of data to anyone.
DocShield – The Documentation Guardian That Never Ships
A CI-native tool that parses your codebase, detects undocumented or stale comments, and enforces a living documentation contract — all on a zero-dollar budget using open-source parts.
MicroLease: The Weekend MVP for Hyperlocal Tool Sharing
A weekend-built platform enabling neighbors to rent out seldom-used tools and equipment for a few hours or days, with a trust-based reputation system.
Project Sunflower: The Solar-Powered, Beginner-Built Smart Planter
A no-solder, no-code-required smart planter kit that teaches absolute beginners electronics, programming, and plant care through building their own solar-powered watering system.
Prompt Sandbox: Learn AI by Playing with Prompts
A no-code, gamified playground where absolute beginners explore how AI thinks by crafting prompts, seeing immediate visual feedback, and leveling up their understanding.
Talking Trees: A Mobile Audio Archive for Indigenous Oral Traditions
An offline-first, mesh-networked mobile app that empowers indigenous elders in the Amazon to record and share oral traditions in their native languages, preserving knowledge without the need for literacy or internet.
The Silent Archive: A Decentralized, Offline Community Memory
An entirely analog, privacy-first system for communities to record and share local knowledge without any digital footprint, using a network of physical kiosks and handwritten cards.