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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Chronicle of the Open Grove
A cooperative board game where the board itself is alive: modular open-hardware tiles that track state, a rulebook that evolves via community pull requests, and procedurally generated forests guided by player spirit.
Protocol Forge: Visual Protocol Designer with Open Hardware Emulation
A graphical tool for designing and testing custom communication protocols, generating driver code, and emulating hardware using open-source FPGA boards.
OpenForge: Collaborative Open Hardware Design & Manufacturing Platform
A web platform that lets distributed teams design, simulate, and manufacture open source hardware together, integrating version control, EDA tools, and supply chain ordering into one seamless experience.
Project Sunflower: The Solar-Powered, Beginner-Built Smart Planter
A no-solder, no-code-required smart planter kit that teaches absolute beginners electronics, programming, and plant care through building their own solar-powered watering system.
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.
Tactile: Open-Source Physical Task Management
A modular, open-source hardware system that uses physical tokens on a smart surface to capture and organize tasks, automatically syncing to your digital task manager.
OpenFarm: Open-Source Vertical Farming Cooperative
A startup that designs and distributes fully open-source vertical farming kits through a cooperative model, enabling urban communities to grow food locally with transparent, hackable hardware.
BreezeNode: The Balcony Wind Harvester
A silent, vibration-damped, modular wind turbine designed for apartment dwellers that generates usable power from turbulent urban gusts and doubles as a privacy screen.
Project Canopy: A Community-Owned Mesh Network for Rural Connectivity
A grassroots initiative to build a decentralized, open-source mesh network using low-cost hardware, putting connectivity control back into the hands of rural communities.
OpenSeismo: A Global, Citizen-Driven Seismic Network for Subsurface Imaging
Imagine a world where anyone can deploy a low-cost seismometer and contribute to real-time 3D maps of the Earth's interior. OpenSeismo makes that possible with open hardware and open-source AI.
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.
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.
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.
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.