A free, open-source map of fruit trees and edible plants growing on public land. Expo + InstantDB + Google Maps. AGPL-3.0. Food access mapped, owned by the community, free to anyone with a phone.

A neural-voice audiobook player for Android. Streams chapters from seventeen fiction backends (Royal Road, GitHub, RSS feeds, Outline, Memory Palace, EPUB files, Project Gutenberg, AO3, Standard Ebooks, Wikipedia, Wikisource, Radio, Notion, Hacker News, arXiv, PLOS, Discord) and reads them aloud with three in-process neural TTS voice families. Paste any URL → smart-route to the best backend. Free, GPL-3.0, no tracking, no in-app purchases.

The TechEmpower nonprofit's website — Technology for All. Access Made Easy. Free technology resources for individuals with low income. Built on Next.js + Notion CMS.

Verbatim-first AI memory at scale. ~160K drawers behind palace-daemon. ChromaDB-default, pgvector + Apache AGE substrate landing on main. The verbatim-vs-derivative axis is the design test.

• speech-to-cli — MCP voice interface for Claude Code, Copilot CLI, and Gemini CLI. Talk to your terminal agent and hear it respond.
• cloud-chat-assistant — Multi-cloud MCP server bridging Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI from any AI CLI.
• gnome-speaks — GNOME Shell extension with voice dictation, TTS readback, and LLM conversation modes for accessibility-forward Linux desktops.
• VoxSherpa-TTS — Offline neural text-to-speech engine for Android. Sherpa-ONNX powered, fully offline, no cloud.
• palace-daemon — HTTP/MCP gateway serializing ChromaDB access across multiple clients of mempalace.
• familiar.realm.watch — Local-first AI companion that reads mempalace before speaking, writes to it after.
• multipass-structural-memory-eval — Diagnostic framework for memory systems — RAG, knowledge graphs, personal knowledge bases, conversational memory.

Technology shouldn't be a luxury. We build software for people that mainstream tools price out, ignore, or fail to serve well:

• 🍎 Local food access mapped openly so anyone with a phone can find fruit trees and edible plants growing on public land.
• 📖 Audiobook tooling for blind, low-vision, and dyslexic readers who can't access traditional reading.
• 🎙️ Voice-first computing for users with motor or cognitive accessibility needs.
• 🧠 Memory systems that respect verbatim source material instead of collapsing it into lossy summaries.
• 🛠️ Accessible developer tools so the people building tomorrow's tech reflect everyone, not just the wealthy.

Every project we ship is free, open-source, and built to outlast us.

• ⭐ Star our projects — visibility helps us recruit contributors and reach the people who need these tools.
• 🐛 File issues, send PRs — accessibility feedback especially welcome.
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