Project ideas

Seventy-odd ideas are scattered across the blog, many of them repeated in different words years apart. This page merges them into 38 projects, groups them by how soon they could exist, and links each to the posts that describe it. The ranking favours ideas that recur, that fit the hardware the blog says the author owns (Quest 3, XREAL glasses, Raspberry Pi 5 with an LLM8850, two Bambu printers, an Arctos arm), and that need weeks rather than years.

Tier A — buildable now, with owned hardware, in weeks

1. Life ledger and personalised news

A camera-plus-language-model logger on the Pi 5 and LLM8850 (or a Jetson) writes one-line "gists" of what is happening into a local database; the same store takes git commits, shell history and wearable data; a daily and weekly briefing is generated from it. This is the blog's most repeated product idea and the one it argues for most personally. Posts: Experience of creating your own product, Personal all-around activity tracker, Camcorder Video Data Logger: EdgeLogger AI, personal news, Sensory monitoring, Evolution and Emotions, cultures (an intensity scale for feelings). First milestone: one camera, one gist per second, one daily digest page.

2. AR guiding glasses

Glasses that overlay the next action: hold these clothes, arrange those books, this is the plant you are looking at. Runs on the XREAL glasses or the Quest 3 passthrough with a vision-language model behind it. Posts: Augmented AI-XR, Wearable AR computer, Typing in the Air, Open nature programming, Scientific mind (augment invisible fields onto vision), Summertime (the 2021 "portable lab" wish). The hardware critique in limitations of current XR glasses is the design brief.

3. Health criticality dashboard

Every organ gets a fitness score between 0 and 1; the overall index is a weighted geometric mean so one failing organ pulls the whole score down; a rate-of-decline term and a 0.7 autonomy threshold drive a traffic light. Inputs start manual, then come from wearables. Posts: Health criticality prediction, Health ultima-care, Self care automation, Map of pain on body, cost of existing, How to live a good life.

4. Closed-loop 3D printing

A camera or depth sensor watches the print, compares it with the model layer by layer and corrects or aborts; the same loop turns the printer into a "negative sculptor". Posts: Dynamic 3d printing, A machine to make any gadget?, material printers, self assembly, and PlanetCrafter, Bambu Lab A1 and A1 mini.

5. Music-affect visualiser

Seven continuous feeling axes (impact, valence, arousal, texture, weight, tension, intimacy) extracted from audio frame by frame and drawn as colour, motion and space in a WebXR scene. Posts: Music perception visualizer idea, Music as a tool for thinking, Excerpts of my mind (the 2020 colour-pen-for-feelings idea), Sensory associative programming.

6. Data sculptures

A set of small WebXR pieces from the blog's numbers: eight billion people as a two-metre cube coloured by age (Human population model); the information-size ladder from a cell to the universe (Information size of cell to universe); the spending chain dot, line, square, cube (Money flow); the representation ladder from a point to a world-field (From Points to World-Fields); the atoms-to-technosphere hierarchy (World's Definition space).

7. Article-space viewer

Papers as points in an embedding space, citations as a pyramid you can walk through; a reading tool for keeping up with fast fields. Posts: Arranging scientific articles, Coping up with the understanding of fast paced research, How to read and write, in a fast paced world.

8. Food pipeline optimiser

Nutrition, price and effort per meal; make-or-buy decisions; a shopping list that closes the loop with the fridge. Posts: autonomous beings, knowledge, and me, Food groceries and eating, Survivalist automations, Smart Fridge Concept.

9. Dish-washing robot

The most concrete robot spec in the blog: two low-cost arms, a brush gripper, cameras, a vision-language-action policy, the sink modelled as a set of objects. Posts: Washing dishes, Robot transformer Vision Language Action development, Modular robotics, Robot grab-action-release, Robot integration e.g. evening, Automatic laundry folding. First milestone: grasp, act, release in simulation with the Arctos or an SO-100 arm.

10. Everything-at-one-place hub

One page for mail, video, social, games, terminals and builds, with a single account and one visual language. Posts: Everything at one place, Beyond the Single Screen: a distributed OS for AR, SaaS and hotel: personal space, Don't want to sequentialize operations.

11. Self-care scaffold app

Skin, muscle, diet and exercise routines with at-home versus professional care, built as a web app first. Posts: Health ultima-care, Self care automation. Folds into project 3.

12. Scroll-driven essays

Essays that reveal themselves as you scroll, so a reader is carried through an argument instead of skimming it. Post: Seeking attention? in flow state?. The canon page of this archive is a candidate.

13. Surviving Mars as a 3D-printed board game

Components generated from text-to-3D, printed on the Bambu, rules adapted from the video game. Posts: Surviving Mars Board game idea, Boardgames and randomness.

14. Respiratory monitoring helmet and bio-monitoring for navigation

Breathing sensors in a helmet or mask, and biometrics fused with navigational aids for people who work at sea or in the air. Posts: Bambu Lab A1 and A1 mini (the helmet idea), Use of bio-monitoring with navigational aids, How AI generation typically may work.

15. Emotion and sense logger

Rate pain and pleasure on an intensity scale several times a day, log which senses were active, and look for patterns. Posts: Evolution and Emotions, cultures, Sensory monitoring, Measuring human emotions. Part of project 1.

Tier B — needs a budget, a partner or data; months

16. XR body twin with an ultrasound probe

A hand-held probe whose images are placed inside a see-through model of your own body in a headset; the step before surgical automation. Posts: Digital twin: body probing, Surgical Automation, Sales and impact (the $15k hospital visualiser that prompted it).

17. Neural-field organ simulator

A single-subject lung as a neural field (SIREN or hash-grid), 2 to 10 million parameters, trained from imaging; later a "zygote" model that grows the organ. Posts: tissue organ 3D AI simulations, Diffusion Growth model for organism, Simulating cellular life, instruction coded generation, Human model simulation.

18. Behaviour-based trajectory model

A data-driven model of how tracked objects move, predicting the next n displacements as a four-dimensional object; the author's own research thread. Posts: Behavioral object based tracking, D4RT generalization and Thinking, Eyes of the North (the ice dataset that could feed it).

19. Thought-to-actuator bridge

EEG or a thought trace feeding a language model that drives actuators, with the model taking over when the person sleeps. Posts: Hybrid AI-Human mind control, Thought trace trained LLMs, Realtime input GPT transformers.

20. Distributed AR operating system and a shared world model

One mouse, many screens, shared storage and processing across devices; a public world-model server that several headsets read. Posts: Beyond the Single Screen, XR in world model, Don't want to sequentialize operations.

21. Society and persona simulator

Populations of language-model personas, crowd dynamics, "regions as organisms". Posts: Simulating society, TinyTroupe-personality simulator idea, Cellular automata, Human population model.

22. Financial circuit simulator

Money modelled like current in a circuit: sources, sinks, resistances, storage; a SPICE for an economy. Posts: Electrical analogue of flowing money, Money flow, money and invisible action, Discovery and mass implementation, and money, Understanding individual financial spending.

23. Home-chore automation suite

Smart-fridge slots with weight sensors and a camera, a laundry-folding method that lets gravity unfold first, an evening-routine planner. Posts: Smart Fridge Concept, Automatic laundry folding, Home automation, How to automate life, Robot integration e.g. evening.

24. Materials atlas

"An AI model that harbours all materials", their preparation and performance, from the 200,000 known crystals to nuclear isomers. Posts: Materials of the future, Matter and materials, Reinventing Human Skin.

25. XR glasses design study

The optics critique (vergence-accommodation, near-infrared eye tracking, uniform pixel density), the ideal wavefront display, materials for skin contact, and twelve concept designs. Posts: limitations of current XR glasses, XR of future. A portfolio piece more than a product.

26. Symbol language for programming reality

A notation for describing physical-reality programs, sketched in symbol tables. Posts: Symbols for programming reality, Controllable system.

27. Personal climate cocoon

A wearable vest that keeps a private microclimate. Post: Modular Personal Private Cocoon.

28. Passenger and cargo separated roads

A road-design proposal that keeps trucks and people on different infrastructure. Post: Separating passengers from cargo.

Tier C — research or speculation; years

29. Engineered cellular forms

A checklist for a cell that does not age (telomerase, mitophagy, ROS control, apoptosis blocking) and a catalogue of cell types that do not exist yet. Posts: Coding bioforms, 2313AD – cellular forms, engineered cells, life, cell, abiogenesis, early earth.

30. Making matter

A fusion reactor that makes carbon and oxygen from hydrogen; a sand-to-chip foundry; volumetric laser sintering; electron-driven protein actuators; a hundred thousand parallel work hours. Posts: Space element maker, Automated Sand-to-Chip Foundry Flow, Future SLS printing, Micro engineered moving spatial structures, Parallel manufacturing, order custom parts beyond PCBs.

31. A mathematical theory of consciousness

The c(t) formulation, the Global Collective Consciousness, and the augmented-collective-intelligence plan, as an essay series or a short book. Posts: Mathematical theory of consciousness, concept of Global Collective Consciousness, P·L·A·N, Sustaining Consciousness.

35. Growing and etching models

Networks that add weights without forgetting; always-loaded neural hardware; a language model etched into silicon through a tiny-tapeout run. Posts: Growing LLMs, Neural network, efficient network of the future, Realtime input GPT transformers, LLMs to store information, order custom parts beyond PCBs.

36. Human digital twin and growth model

A model of a person from genome to daily state, with a diffusion model over growth stages. Posts: Human model simulation, Diffusion Growth model for organism, Body, aging, sustenance, Human Vitality.

37. The book

The twelve theses on the Canon page, written out at length with the posts as chapters. Post that asks for it: Flow of thought vs the flow of write ("a book expands like a tree").

38. A research landing page

A proper page for the Eyes of the North work and the Baltic Sea Ice dataset, with the talk notes from Conducting research: bits and pieces v0.1 beside it. Post: Eyes of the North.

Ranking rule: an idea moved up when it recurs across years, when the blog says the hardware is already owned, and when a first milestone fits in a few weeks. Tier boundaries are judgement calls; the posts are the source.