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Airborne Communications
Elevating lightweight LoRa mesh transceivers with kites and tethered balloons for extreme range, emergency communications, and open atmospheric telemetry.
Projects
Programmes and sprouts
Open projects, prototypes, and sprouts — ideas for energy autonomy and open technology.
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Projects
active
Open Workshops & Education
Practical hardware labs for solar energy, safe DIY battery assembly, building resilient off-grid computing nodes, and freely accessible open curriculum.
active
Local Cryptography & Digital Signatures
Self-sovereign digital identity, private local PKI via step-ca, and client-side cryptographic document signing with pyHanko without corporate cloud lock-in.
active
Solar Charging Station & Edge Node
A portable open-hardware solar bench with synchronous MPPT control, LiFePO4 battery management, Raspberry Pi edge server, and RS485/Modbus telemetry.
PHOTOGRAPH PENDING · A microphone and a screen displaying Cyrillic text and phonetic waveforms on a developer workbench
active
Voice Synthesis for Macedonian
Open text-to-speech for the Macedonian language based on Piper and VITS neural models, featuring phonetic IPA rules and local edge inference without cloud reliance.
PHOTOGRAPH PENDING · A digital audio recorder and headphones beside a terminal running Whisper transcription
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Open Speech Transcription (Whisper)
Fast, open Macedonian speech-to-text powered by Whisper models accelerated with CTranslate2 and INT8 quantization for private, zero-cloud transcription.
Sprouts
Early-stage ideas. A sprout becomes an active project once it gains a collaborator, schematics, and a working prototype.
prototype
Solar Smart Fountain
Autonomous solar-powered public drinking fountain with pulse flow metering, contactless activation, freeze protection, and open LoRa telemetry for leak detection and water conservation.
prototype
Microclimate Cooling Mister
Autonomous solar-powered microclimate cooling mister combating urban heat islands with psychrometric sensor triggers and strict Legionella prevention.
research
Open Green Points
An experiment in rewarding verified energy conservation and community volunteering using transparent cryptographic audit logs without speculative crypto-tokens.
prototype
Crypto Micro-Donations for Hardware
Direct micro-funding of open hardware components via self-hosted crypto services without bank friction, card fees, or intermediary bureaucracy.
prototype
3D-Printed Solar Tracking Robotic Arm
Open-source dual-axis solar tracker engineered with 3D-printed kinematic linkages and hybrid sensor-ephemeris tracking to increase solar yield by up to 35%.
research
Airborne Wind Turbine
Exploring high-altitude wind power via tethered ram-air wings and lightweight ground generation to tap persistent winds aloft.
research
Local Energy Community Model
Open simulation engine and local telemetry framework for peer-to-peer solar energy sharing and transformer-level grid balancing.
research
Open Solar Alliance
A regional federation of hackerspaces, makers, and engineering labs collaborating on shared open-hardware solar designs and independent equipment benchmarking.
prototype
Cross-Border Sensor Network
Trans-Balkan LoRa sensor and packet-mesh network deployed along mountain ridges for early wildfire detection, air quality, and off-grid emergency telemetry without cellular roaming.