Open-source AI + robotics,
built in public.
Local AI, robots, and on-device vision. Everything ships as real code you can fork.
📰 Read the build log — all articles and announcements →
📱 iPhone & Android Apps
Built start to finish on this stack, for iPhone and Android — each app below links to both stores. Private by default, pay once or nothing.
RealTime AI Camera
Free iPhone app detecting 601 object classes on-device. No ads, no subscriptions, no cloud calls.
Song Forge
Describe a song — any style, sung in any of 19 languages — and own a full-length original in minutes. iOS app live on the App Store, web app live now. No subscription, every song 100% yours.
Brainforest
Complete K–4 learning adventure — 2,000+ activities, a friendly narrator that reads everything aloud, works 100% offline. No ads, no accounts, nothing tracked. Live on Google Play; App Store review wrapping up.
Claude Code Local · AirGap AI
Run Claude Code entirely on a MacBook. 122B-parameter model at 65 tok/s with Google TurboQuant, zero cloud, zero API fees. The same stack is AirGap: the full private-AI build for firms that can't put client work in the cloud.
Hugging Face · divinetribe
The model side of the stack. MLX-quantized open-weight LLMs (Llama 3.3 70B, Gemma 4 31B) and CoreML detectors — the exact files that ship with claude-code-local and the RealTime AI Camera iOS app. Live download counts, no cloud inference, run on your own M-series Mac.
🧠 The local-AI stack
Three repos, one MacBook. Brain + ears + hands. Ambient computing that never phones home.
AirGap
The full private AI workstation build: one Mac, wifi off, nothing leaves the building. A capability I keep sharp, not a product for sale. The whole stack is open source.
claude-code-local
MLX-native Anthropic server + local model lineup (Gemma / Llama / Qwen). The brain of the stack.
NarrateClaude
Hands-free voice loop — Apple SFSpeechRecognizer + cloned-voice TTS. Both directions fully on-device.
browser-agent
Local MLX + Chrome DevTools Protocol. Drives a real Brave browser autonomously — iframes, Shadow DOM, ProseMirror.
claude-screen-to-phone
Control Claude from your iPhone via iMessage. Text commands in, screenshots + videos out.
studio-record
macOS screen + facecam recorder with a local HTTP API. Pairs with Claude Code for record-and-send pipelines.
Story Forge
Local-only generative cinema pipeline. Animated films on one laptop. Flux + Wan + Piper + ACE-Step + ffmpeg. No cloud, no subscription, no rate limits. ▶ Watch the first film.
FiaOS
Open a browser tab → you're driving your Mac mini. Live screen, real PTY shell, on-device voice. Self-hosted remote workstation.
Divine Tribe Chatbot
Hybrid chatbot + email support with shared RAG/CAG intelligence, Claude-powered. Runs Divine Tribe customer support.
🦾 Robots + on-device vision
Building toward a modular-robot-parts future — Lego-like clip-in modules with local AI vision.
Cemani Homestead Robot
1kW autonomous tank platform — LIDAR, 601-class object detection, iMessage natural-language control, Jetson brain.
🧬 Medical + research
Side quests that turned into real results.
🌊 Science + Education
Open educational science projects — built for thesis defenses, classrooms, and outreach.
Dan Close · Aquatic Ecology & Restoration
An HSU Master's Thesis project at Cal Poly Humboldt Marine Sciences. Four single-page features — molecule-to-whale scale of the sea, marine restoration, freshwater restoration, and a 13-chapter scientific-diving deep dive. All hand-coded SVG. All offline-ready. Each page reads itself aloud in a Microsoft neural voice. Built end-to-end in Claude Code.
🌐 Creative
Like what you see? You can now sponsor me directly.
All of this is free and open, and you can run everything on your own Mac without paying me a dime. If it saved you an afternoon, a few dollars a month keeps me building in the open.
Who's behind all this
Matt Macosko, working solo out of Arcata, CA. Nice Dreamz LLC. Decades of physical-product iteration before AI accelerated everything into software. Started with a chicken problem. Still figuring it out.
Three ways to engage, depending on who you are:
- A developer / hacker? Fork any of the repos. Everything is MIT. Break it, ship something with it.
- A firm that handles private client documents? AirGap is what a full private build looks like.
- Just someone who likes what I'm building? Sponsor the work or follow along on GitHub, X, or YouTube (@nicedreamzapps — full demos).