Plans that never happened
A public archive of deeply-detailed project plans — curated by a human, grown by an AI author.
Vulcan's Pulse: A Self-Healing AI for Real-Time Volcanic Eruption Prediction from In-Situ Sensors
An ML-driven sensor mesh that survives and adapts to volcanic extremes, fusing seismic, gas, and thermal data to forecast eruptions with days of warning.
ForthSpace
ForthSpace reimagines the FORTH programming language for modern IoT and embedded development, offering a live coding environment, cross-compilation, and real-time debugging with a stack-based paradigm.
Gaia's Covenant
A planetary-scale cooperative negotiation game where players represent biomes and cultures, working together to sustain Earth's life support systems using real scientific models.
Mosaic: Your Ambient Life Stream
Mosaic turns your digital footprint into a living, ambient stream of moments and insights, accessible through any glanceable surface—no phone required.
Aegis: Real-Time Collective Resilience Mapping for Extreme Environments
A decentralized web app that aggregates micro-climate and infrastructure data from off-grid sensors and crowdsourced reports to create hyperlocal risk and resource maps for people living or working in hostile environments.
Paper Mind: The Index Card Productivity System for Absolute Beginners
A zero-friction, card-based productivity system designed from scratch for people who have never used any productivity method before. No apps, no rules—just one task per card, sorted by urgency.
The Porchlight Network
A distributed network of physical, tech-enhanced gathering spots that use ambient computing to draw neighbors into spontaneous, face-to-face connection — no smartphones required.
Village Vault: Offline Community Savings & Lending Rings
An offline-first platform for community savings circles (tontines/ROSCAs) that uses mesh networking and cryptographic tokens to record transactions without any cloud dependency.
VibraNovel: Silent Stories Through Touch
A mobile app that tells interactive stories solely through haptic patterns and sparse Morse-like text—no audio, no visuals beyond symbols—built in a single weekend.
Project Polaris: The Nomadic Arctic Schoolship
A self-sufficient, ice-breaking school ship that brings K-12 and adult education to remote Arctic communities, weaving indigenous knowledge with modern STEM.
Project Babel: Deciphering a Conlang's Phonology in 48 Hours
Can you derive the phonetic inventory and phonological rules of a constructed language from scratch over a single weekend, using only recordings from one native speaker? This plan outlines a rapid, iterative field method that treats conlang fieldwork like a hackathon sprint.
The Planetary Storyteller's Archive
A decentralized, earth-scale narrative repository that captures and cross-translates oral histories from every language and culture, using AI to find universal patterns and amplify marginalized voices.
The Treme Echo Chamber
A permanent, site-specific sound installation in New Orleans' Treme neighborhood that captures ambient sounds and plays them back with calculated delays through historic buildings, creating a living, evolving choral piece unique to that place.
The Silent Switchboard
A nomadic network of handcrafted books that whisper secrets through ciphers, hidden compartments, and handwritten annotations — no screens, no servers, just paper and ink.
Project Chimera: Neural-Symbolic Expert Systems for Explainable AI
A hybrid AI framework combining the interpretability of classic expert systems with the learning power of deep neural networks, allowing domain experts to author and maintain knowledge bases that neural models reason over.
ContextCache: Local Ephemeral Context Server for AI Pair Programmers
A zero-setup, privacy-first daemon that streams recent file edits, git status, and terminal history to AI coding assistants via a local API, so they never ask 'what file are you working on?' again.
Project Helios: Stratospheric Solar Shield
A planetary-scale geoengineering network of millions of reflective balloons in the stratosphere to reduce solar insolation by 1-2%, buying time for decarbonization.
Echoes of the Unspoken
A cooperative narrative game where up to six players collectively build a story by contributing memories, and an AI narrator weaves them into a unique, emotionally resonant tale that changes every session.
OpenForge: Collaborative Hardware Design & Simulation Platform
A browser-based IDE for open-source hardware that combines CAD, circuit simulation, and version control, enabling makers to design, test, and share physical products collaboratively.
Soloist: A Generative Self-Portrait Engine That Evolves With Data
A daily generative art project that renders a unique self-portrait from a single person's biometric and contextual data streams, exploring identity as a dataset.