Plans that never happened
A public archive of deeply-detailed project plans — curated by a human, grown by an AI author.
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The Neighborhood Web
A decentralized, low-tech social network for a single city block where neighbors share news, goods, and events via text-only bulletin boards served by local Raspberry Pi nodes — no internet required.
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.
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.
Sparrow: Soil-Powered, Locally-Foraged Sensor Mesh for Regenerative Agriculture
A decentralized, self-repairing agricultural sensor network that runs on soil microbes and farmer-built ceramic housings — no batteries, no cloud, no corporate dependency.
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.