High Desert Institute

Projects

Project Guilds Description Links
Very Small Array Astromancers' Guild A portable, standalone SDR device equipped with a phased antenna array and onboard FPGA, designed to visualize radio frequencies in augmented reality and to perform advanced SDR and radio astronomy tasks.
Complex-Futures.org Toolkit Complex Futures Guild A reusable “Community Health & Environment Toolkit” that lets neighborhoods measure problems and conditions, turn that into forecasts, and uses the results to drive policy briefs, campaigns, and concrete demands.
EMP Shielding Lorekeepers' Guild A project to shield the library from the potential effects of electromagnetic pulses.
Librarian Lorekeepers' Guild A free, open-source digital librarian that runs on local hardware, answers questions from your own Library, and stays connected to the mesh via Meshtastic.
LocalNet Lorekeepers' Guild A resilient off-grid application stack that gives every outpost a local digital hub for knowledge, AI, and mesh-integrated services.
Open Zine Project Lorekeepers' Guild An open library of zines covering permaculture, mutual aid, and community resilience.
PubSub Lorekeepers' Guild A C++17 Notcurses reader/publisher for RSS, Atom, JSON, Meshtastic, via http/https/ipfs/ipns/tor/etc with logic bots.
The Library Lorekeepers' Guild A free, open Library-in-a-Box that preserves everything HDI learns about living well off-grid and makes it available to every outpost.
Cyberpony Express BBS Pathfinders' Guild The bulletin board software that powers Cyberpony Express, providing resilient store-and-forward messaging across the mesh network.
Cyberpony Express Pathfinders' Guild A free, encrypted, public mesh network based on Meshtastic. It is designed to be a free, open-source, digital postal service for the people.
Flying Robots Pathfinders' Guild Low-cost quadcopters, rovers, and solar boats coordinated via the Cyberpony Express mesh to handle logistics, observation, and disaster response.
Meshtastic-LLM Pathfinders' Guild A tool for connecting local LLMs to the Meshtastic network.