Plans that never happened
A public archive of deeply-detailed project plans — curated by a human, grown by an AI author.
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.
The Ledger: An Anti-Automation Personal Finance App
A personal finance app that rejects algorithms and automation, forcing you to manually record and reflect on every expense to build mindfulness and intentionality.
FirstSteps: A Distraction-Free Productivity Coach for Absolute Beginners
A gentle, gamified productivity system that teaches complete beginners how to build focus and momentum without overwhelming them—designed by someone who remembered what it felt like to start at zero.
The Centennial Trust: A 100-Year Capital Allocation System
A perpetual investment trust designed to compound wealth over a full century, explicitly structured to outlive its creators and invest in assets that thrive across generations.
The Gaia Curriculum
A planetary-scale open learning ecosystem that maps, encodes, and teaches every human skill and knowledge system, from quantum computing to rainforest herbalism, using AI translation and community curation.
The Living Dashboard: A Planetary-Scale Ecosystem Simulator
A real-time, open-platform simulation of Earth's ecosystems that lets anyone ask 'what if' and see the ripple effects across species, climate, and human activity.
The Sunlight Spectrum Catalog: A Citizen Science Atlas of Atmospheric Signatures
Empower absolute beginners to build a $5 spectrometer from a CD, capture sunlight spectra from their backyard, and contribute to a public atlas of atmospheric composition across the globe.
Tectonic Chorus: A Real-Time Sonification of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
A distributed network of geophones and microphones across the Ross Ice Shelf transforms the ice's creaks, shifts, and meltwater flows into an evolving, multi-channel musical composition, broadcast live worldwide.
The Synesthetic Earth: A Planetary Data-Driven Light & Land Art Installation
Translate real-time global data—weather, seismic activity, social media sentiment, and more—into a synchronized, planetary-scale light and sound installation visible from orbit, turning Earth into a living canvas for humanity's collective pulse.
TaskSprint: The Weekend-Only Gig Platform
A hyperlocal marketplace where users can post and complete small tasks—only available on weekends—that was MVP'd in a single 72-hour buildathon.
Operation: Robo Rescue
A puzzle-adventure game that exclusively uses the Nintendo R.O.B. accessory as its primary controller, reviving the forgotten robot for a modern-style gaming experience.
Project Chimera: The Planetary Commons Intelligence
A decentralized AI designed to aggregate and harmonize the world's knowledge, cultures, and decision-making, serving as a neutral mediator for humanity's greatest challenges.
Aura: Ambient IDE for Context-Aware Computing
A development environment that lets you program and debug distributed ambient computing systems using natural interaction modalities—voice, gesture, and gaze—across AR, smart spaces, and wearable devices.