Plans that never happened
A public archive of deeply-detailed project plans — curated by a human, grown by an AI author.
SoloMod Synth: A Battery-Powered, Modular Digital Synthesizer for the Solo Performer
A compact, self-contained modular synthesizer that runs on rechargeable batteries, uses a touchscreen for patching, and fits in a backpack — designed and built by one person.
MeshTalk: Decentralized Off-Grid Messenger
A mobile app that enables peer-to-peer messaging and data sharing via Bluetooth mesh networking, with no internet or cloud required. Perfect for remote areas, disasters, or privacy-conscious users.
The Nomadic Kitchen Cooperative
A decentralized network of mobile, pay-what-you-can community kitchens that bring surplus urban produce to underserved neighborhoods—rejecting the profit-driven restaurant model and app-based delivery monopolies.
The Neighborhood Letter
A hyper-local, text-only social platform that replaces algorithmic feeds with daily community digests delivered via email or printed letter, fostering genuine connection without engagement metrics.
AquaSprint: Mission Control for Subsea Productivity
A synchronized task-rhythm platform for small crews living months in subsea habitats, blending circadian light cycles, life-support constraints, and deep-work blocks into one calm, resilient schedule.
The Institute of Glorious Mistakes
A global pop-up language school where students learn by celebrating, creating, and performing the most beautiful linguistic errors.
The Helios Constellation: A Million-Mirror Sunshade for Climate Intervention
A planetary-scale geoengineering project to deploy 1,000,000 lightweight mirrors at the Sun-Earth L1 point, reducing solar radiation by 1.5% to offset global warming while fostering unprecedented international collaboration.
Portfolio Credit Union: A Peer-to-Peer Lending Pool for Freelance Creatives
A cooperative credit system where creative freelancers leverage their project portfolios and client reviews to access low-interest loans, bypassing traditional credit scores.
Haptic Echo: A Non-Visual Ambient Messaging Protocol for Post-Screen Sociality
A design research project to prototype and evaluate a haptic-audio messaging system that enables social connection without screens, rethinking communication for an ambient computing future.
SONAR: Sub-Oceanic Networked Acoustic Resonance
A live, deep-ocean concert that streams the sonic environment of hydrothermal vents and shipwrecks, collaborating with indigenous coastal communities and using tactile feedback for deaf audiences.
FloraSwap: The Global Houseplant Trading Network
A peer-to-peer platform where plant lovers trade cuttings, pups, and full plants, complete with digital passports, care histories, and a global rarity system that turns plant parenting into a joyful, absurd quest.
The Echo Archive: A Grassroots Oral History Project
A decentralized network of community-recorded oral histories from rural and urban margins, deliberately avoiding institutional archives and digital platforms to return stories to the people.
The Memory Palace of Lost Libraries
A series of intricate, mixed-media dioramas recreating destroyed libraries as miniature immersive installations, each hiding a layered audio narrative triggered by proximity and light.
Eden: The Offline-First, Zero-Telemetry Build System
A deterministic, local-only build system and dependency manager that never phones home—designed for developers who value reproducibility, privacy, and simplicity.
Venezia: The Floating City AI
An AI platform that predicts tidal flooding, optimizes canal traffic, and preserves Venice's unique acoustic heritage using historical and real-time sensor data.
The Unicorn Project: Where Kids Pitch, You Invest, and the World Gets Weirder.
A crowdfunding platform where children submit their joyfully absurd business ideas, and adults can invest small amounts through a lottery system—the more ridiculous, the better.
Epoch: The Century Game
A civilization-scale MMO that unfolds in real-time over 100 years, where player actions shape a persistent world through generations of players.
Chaski Net: Solar-Powered Mesh for Indigenous Knowledge Exchange
A rugged, solar-powered mesh network that enables remote Amazonian communities to share, preserve, and evolve oral traditions, agricultural calendars, and endangered languages without centralized internet.
LoRa Messenger – Off-Grid Texting with Open Hardware
A mobile app + open hardware dongle that lets you text over 10km without cell towers, using LoRa radio and a mesh network.
The Century Seed Trust: A Self-Governing Seed Bank & Living Archive
A community-owned, 100-year seed bank and learning center designed to preserve heirloom varieties and agricultural knowledge through autonomous governance, sustainable infrastructure, and intergenerational stewardship.