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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SparkGen: The Weekend Thermoelectric Generator
A portable, high-efficiency thermoelectric generator built from a rocket stove and scavenged Peltier modules, delivering 15W off-grid power — all in a single weekend.
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 Permafrost Commons: A Self-Governing Arctic Living Lab
A planned year-round residential community in Svalbard designed as a co-governed hub for indigenous knowledge, climate science, and resilient living in extreme cold, powered entirely by local renewables and waste heat recovery.
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.
The City Memory Box: A Decentralized Street-Level Archive
A shoestring project to turn discarded smartphones into solar-powered street kiosks that collect and share local oral histories, photos, and ephemera—an offline-first, community-owned memory network.