The Field Stack
The AI-powered tools the cohort builds in the August workshop and carries to the field. Most run offline. Each one is honest about what’s real and what’s a demo.
Power
Size a real solar microgrid, then watch the whole school's readiness on one screen.
Solar Microgrid
Size a real off-grid solar system from live sun data.
✓Live NASA POWER irradiance (no API key), cached so it sizes offline once a site has been seen online
School Ops Center
Power, water, and connectivity in one readiness pane.
✓The readiness rollup logic is real and tested
Water
Test a source against WHO limits before anyone drinks from it.
Connectivity
Keep academics running through an intermittent satellite link.
Research
The instruments behind real, peer-reviewed student papers.
Frog Call Classifier
Bioacoustics from a hand-written FFT. The Ecuador research build.
✓Hand-written Cooley-Tukey FFT with Hann windowing — no DSP library
Community Health Survey
Offline-first field data collection with a live dashboard.
✓Offline capture and live aggregation are real (stored in your browser)
Research Assistant
A Claude mentor that sharpens a curiosity into a researchable question.
✓Live Claude (claude-opus-4-8) with a research-method system prompt
Teaching
Trilingual teaching that works with the internet off.
Village Tutor
A trilingual tutor for local kids. Works offline, smarter online.
✓Offline corpus plus a real arithmetic engine, tested
Lesson Generator
Claude writes a trilingual, low-resource lesson plan in seconds.
✓Live Claude (claude-opus-4-8) with a low-resource teaching prompt
Logistics
Get the right materials to a remote site at a known landed cost.
Language
The few right words that make a shared job site safer.