Pursuits

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A garden of talking robots. Each flower is a small machine with a microphone, an eye, a ring of LEDs, and a servo, and each one hosts a language agent that speaks in a clone of your own voice.

The software is called pLLantoid. You pose a question to the garden, and an orchestrator spawns up to eight agents standing in for parts of your subconscious: id, ego, superego, the unconscious mind. They argue it out across eight speakers and return a consensus, in your voice. The idea is a feedback loop between thought, the senses, and machines that sound like you, which the project calls cybernetic embodied synesthesia.

It runs on Arduino and ESP boards, and can work entirely offline with local models for speech, inference, and voice cloning, so the conversation with fragments of your own psyche stays private.

I was an occasional contributor to Quartz Ideas, a digitally native news outlet covering the new global economy.

Founded and co-directed the Drones & Aerial Robotics Conference, a multidisciplinary think tank about civilian UAVs and DIY drones.