An open-source manual for building a Shouse — a dry, powered, autonomous node. Lower your overhead. Grow food. Run compute. Understand your own stack.
From philosophy to plumbing. Each chapter is a standalone module — build in sequence or jump to what you need.
Why build now. The intelligence explosion, economic dislocation, and the case for local resilience.
Iron, GPUs, and the AI Crucible. Surplus industrial hardware as the engine of local capacity.
Double-wide container engineering. Structural modification, insulation, and climate control basics.
FarmBot + Mycodo for automated food production. Solar panel layout, rainwater integration, growing beds.
How to work with your building department instead of around it. Title 25, zoning, and what to ask before you buy anything.
Local ActivityPub and community mesh. Federated communication without cloud dependency.
Full shopping list. Sourcing from surplus, auction, and salvage. The Scavenger Map protocol.
Community infrastructure. Peer-to-peer technical training and the Stewardship Workshop curriculum.
Engine Room deep-dive. arena.py, docker-compose, GPU orchestration, and the Integration Nexus.
libp2p mesh networking. Resilient node-to-node data relay without central infrastructure.
Every layer is open-source, self-hostable, and designed to run on surplus hardware.
CNC precision planting, watering, and weed detection on the growing bed.
Environmental sensing and automation. Humidity, CO₂, temp, and light control.
Containerized service orchestration. Reproducible across any x86 or ARM node.
The AI Crucible. Orchestrates local LLM inference on surplus GPU hardware.
Peer-to-peer networking layer. Nodes find each other without DNS or central relay.
Federated local social layer. Community coordination without platform lock-in.
Clone, compose, run. Full manual in /docs.
Every layer of the stack uses a copyleft license. Improvements stay open.
arena.py, mesh_node.js, and all software. Network use triggers share-alike.
CAD templates, wiring diagrams, and structural designs. Modifications must be shared.
All 10 manual chapters. Remix and redistribute with attribution and same license.