What Can We Build

There's no limit to what we can build here, but we focus on projects aligned with our interests and skills. Or just build for fun. For specific idea lists, head over to junkyard.

We don't pick sides between software and hardware—projects can be personal or social. Build whatever inspires you.

For profit products

Build products using your skills with the intention of generating economic value. This could be a short-term project or a prototype for your next startup.

Home-cooked/creative projects

Whimsical & Placemaking

Low-risk experiments to build social trust, test engagement, and create infrastructure for deeper collaboration, addressing real community needs through joyful, trust-building interventions.

• Tactical Urbanism: Small-scale infrastructure tests (pop-up shelters, temporary lighting, community kitchens) that validate solutions before permanent investment.
• Whimsical Joy Installations: Playful public art that builds emotional bonds (sidewalk libraries, wishing trees, story walls) creating delight in everyday spaces. Some some examples. Other examples could be Little free Library(more than books?) Boxes, Neighborhood Wishing Trees etc.
• Navigation & Accessibility related installations

Ambient/Interactive/mixed media experiments

These experiments may be purely digital or a mix of digital and reality.

1. Creative Coding & Generative Art

   • Build visual art and generative systems using Processing, p5.js, or openFrameworks
   • Create algorithmic compositions that evolve over time
   • Develop installations that respond to community input or environmental data

2. Live Coding & Algoraves

   • Real-time musical improvisation using SuperCollider, TidalCycles, or Sonic Pi
   • Audience-facing programming performances where code becomes performance art
   • Community algorave events combining live coding with visuals

3. Browser-Based & Web Art

   • Interactive storytelling systems accessible from any device
   • HTML5/CSS/JavaScript experiments for artistic expression
   • Responsive installations that adapt to different screens and interaction methods
   • Web-based tools for community event documentation

4. Physical-Digital Hybrids

   • Scanimations and optical illusion pieces
   • Projections and mapped visuals for physical spaces
   • Sensor-driven interactive installations

Personal & Social Tools

Build software for yourself, your friends, or your community—not for scale.

• Personal Tools: Replace subscriptions with weekend projects. Build your own note-taking app, habit tracker, or whatever scratches your itch. It doesn't need to scale or look polished—it just needs to work for you.
• Social & Archival Projects: Open data tools, community dashboards, local resource maps, web archiving scripts, data rescue utilities—software that serves a specific group or preserves what matters before it disappears.

Exploratory building

Experiment freely with different technologies and tools: local-first software, systems programming, low-level networking, P2P systems, local AI inference, and agentic systems. Or build something with electronics, robotics, and mechanical components. Or go the crafty/fabrication route.

Build for the space

We have different spaces—garden, homestay, hackerhouse—each with their own building needs. Today it might be a trellis, tomorrow a rainwater harvesting system. Think DIY sensor networks tracking soil and weather, time-lapse rigs documenting seasonal changes, homemade grow lights and climate chambers, hydroponics experiments, composting setups, or just simple garden structures. Whatever the space needs, we figure it out and build it.

Can we?(s)

Answers to all these can we(s) is usually yes but the process is fun!

• Can we lamp it?
• Can we pot it?
• Can we frame it?
• Can we paint it?