Principles & Theory
Texts and frameworks that argue for a different relationship to computation.A solar-powered website that goes offline when its battery runs low, and dithers every image to save energy.
Julia Watson's book on nature-based technologies rooted in Traditional Ecological Knowledge.
Atmos on Tainá — an Amazon-built AI vault, stored locally, owned by the community.
The Lo-TEK movement's Instagram. External link only — not archived here.
Devine Lu Linvega's wiki: frugal, salvage and collapse computing; design for disassembly.
Reconstrained Design's ten-point manifesto for community-built gravity batteries that store energy as story.
Caroline Sinders' anti-upscaling social network, partly powered by potatoes and e-waste.
Practice & Hardware
Objects, devices and tutorials — energy and matter made visible.Feminist Hackerspaces make printed circuit boards from wild clay and urban-mined silver.
Shashwath Santosh's battery, built entirely from found objects and scrap metal.
Zach Rotholz's flat-pack corrugated laptop for kids, built around a Raspberry Pi.
Gieskes: songs made directly from sunlight on circuit-bent, solar-powered instruments.
A real-life Pokédex for young 'ecology guardians,' running iNaturalist on a Coral board.
FutureEverything & UAL: a web server powered by the bio-energy of a community compost heap.
Networks & Tools
Webrings, slow protocols, and the small utilities that hold the scene together.Allium House's tiny JavaScript widget for building webrings with almost no technical knowledge.
Em Reed's (retired) webring for Web 1.0-inspired, low-tech homepages. The spiritual hub.
Beverly Chou's experiments in deliberate slowness as resistance to data extraction.
Checks whether your webpage fits on a 1.44MB floppy. A physical reminder of filesize.
Free in-browser image dithering — Floyd–Steinberg, Atkinson, Bayer. Processed locally.
Lo-fi image and video effects: dithering, halftone, CRT, ASCII. Free, no sign-up.