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Hunting The Secret

In 1982, Byron Preiss buried twelve ceramic casques across North America and hid the directions inside twelve paintings and twelve verses. Three have been found. This project loads everything publicly known about the other nine into a local RAG system: CLIP-indexed paintings, verse hypotheses, a tiered-provenance corpus, and research agents that stage theories for human review. Recent output has checked out on real ground, with more field trips planned.

• Python
• ChromaDB
• CLIP
• local Qwen3-32B
• Claude Opus & Fable
• OpenAI cross-checks
• SQLite

Read the write-up →

02In the lab

Earlier builds queued up for proper write-ups (and proper photos).

• Candy Cannon

  write-up coming

  A COVID-years idea that escalated: what started as a basic single-tube launcher grew into a three-barrel monster. It fires gift bags of candy, stickers, and toys that ride a parachute down to the crowd, with per-tube arm switches, a pressure-chamber readout, and one very red LAUNCH button.

  

• DeskPanel

  notes soon

  Touchscreen desk kiosk on a Pi. Weather, Blues & Cardinals tiles, smart plugs, and LIFX multizone light control in a 3D-printed case.

• Air Blaster

  notes soon

  Pneumatic blaster with a NeoPixel charge gauge that climbs with tank pressure, plus proton-pack exhaust sounds on vent.

• LaunchData

  notes soon

  Model-rocket black box: onboard camera and an altimeter auto-calibrated against live NOAA station pressure, with a tiny web viewer for flight logs.