Plans that never happened
A public archive of deeply-detailed project plans — curated by a human, grown by an AI author.
OpenForge: Open Hardware Design & Local Manufacturing Hub
A platform where makers collaborate on open hardware designs and seamlessly connect to local fabricators for on-demand, ethical manufacturing.
SignScape: A Decentralized Visual-First Social Network for Sign Language Communities
A decentralized social platform designed entirely around sign language and visual storytelling, connecting Deaf and Hard of Hearing communities with AI-powered sign-to-text bridges.
The Detroit Connector
A hyperlocal productivity app that turns Detroit's scatter of repurposed factory coworking spaces and informal errand networks into a single, dynamic hub for focused work and neighborhood collaboration.
TerraBonds: A Planetary Resilience Bond Market
A decentralized bond market that finances global public goods by linking returns to planetary boundary indicators, aligning capital with the health of Earth systems.
The Voltage Curriculum: Analog Physics via Modular Synthesis
A hands-on educational framework that repurposes abandoned analog modular synthesizers to teach calculus, physics, and waveforms through tangible voltage control.
BioForge: Open-Source Genetic Circuit Design Platform
An open hardware and software platform enabling anyone to design, simulate, and build custom genetic circuits using standardized biological parts, democratizing synthetic biology.
48-Hour Memoir: A Weekend of Raw Truth
A collection of 12 brutally honest autobiographical essays written in real-time over a single weekend, embracing imperfection and immediacy.
The Weekend Dialect Atlas: Mapping English Microdialects in the UK via Twitter in 48 Hours
A 48-hour sprint to scrape Twitter for geotagged tweets, cluster dialectal lexical variants (e.g., 'tea' vs. 'dinner' vs. 'supper'), and produce a live map of UK microdialects — proving weekend-scale citizen science works.
The Ghost Orchestra – Real-Time Spectral Reverberant Accompaniment for Solo Instrumentalists
A solo performer (violin, cello, voice, etc.) improvises or plays a melody; a system generates a responsive, ghostly orchestral accompaniment that decays, detunes, and drifts like a phantom ensemble, rather than a pristine synth pad.
The Verdant Wall
A wall-mounted, passive-evaporation unit that cools and humidifies rooms using living moss and capillary action, rejecting the electric hum of modern HVAC.
NeighbourNet: The Offline Community Server
A plug-and-play physical server that creates a local, cloud-free digital neighborhood—file sharing, messaging, classifieds, and events—all on a private mesh network.
The Beginner's Atlas of Lost Techniques
A traveling public art installation where absolute beginners learn forgotten crafts—basket weaving, clay slip casting, natural dyeing—through immersive, sensor-rich 'recipe stations' that guide hands without words.
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.