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Sebik Pokharel
Sebik Pokharel

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Garden Care

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What I Built:

Details Understory as a screen-zero field companion designed to solve the paradox of screen-heavy outdoor apps.
Highlights the 4 pillars: Screen-Zero Audio Walk Mode, Tactile & Sensory Verification (prompting hands-on tests like checking bracket pore textures or nettle trichomes), Procedural Generative Forest Ambience, and Hands-Free Field Logging.

Demo:

Screen-Recording.mp4 - Google Drive

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Code:

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Understory (Garden Care) 🌿

Screen-Zero Open-Source Naturalist & Permaculture Garden Companion
An audio-first, offline-capable field naturalist companion designed to get you off screens and deeply engaged with the living soil and ecosystem.

🌟 Key Features

  • 🎧 Screen-Zero Audio Field Mode: Audio-first interface designed for foraging, weeding, and observation without needing to stare at a smartphone screen.
  • 🔊 Procedural Forest Soundscape: Native Web Audio API ambient sound engine synthesizing procedural wind, bird calls, rustling leaves, and stream acoustics.
  • 🍄 Specimen & Plant Identification: Local knowledge database and recognition system for wild edibles, fungi (e.g. Turkey Tail), medicinal herbs (Stinging Nettle), and garden crops (Heirloom Tomatoes).
  • 📖 Field Journal & Observations: Log touch, smell, tactile observations, soil moisture, and habitat notes.
  • ⚡ Dual Mode Intelligence: Works 100% offline with local heuristics and simulated edge models, with optional live cloud intelligence via Google Gemini Flash.
  • 🌱 Glassmorphism Dark…
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  • Breaks down the modular architecture across index.html, styles.css, and app.js.

How I Built It:

Details the edge-first AI pipeline designed for local/offline inference (Llama 3.2, Moondream2 vision), procedural Web Audio API nature acoustics synthesis, and the hybrid fallback to Google Gemini Flash.

Why Does Open Innovation Matter?:

  • Zero Cell Signal on the Trail: Why closed cloud APIs fail when you are out in nature, and why local open-weight inference is essential.
  • Foraging & Ecological Privacy: Protecting sensitive GPS coordinates and prized wild foraging locations from centralized data collection.
  • Open Agricultural Commons: Ensuring permaculture and soil knowledge is accessible without token paywalls.

🌐 Community Wisdom & Provenance:

References community articles on dev.to exploring offline AI companions and voice-guided trail guides:

  • I Built an Offline AI Companion That Gets You Outside 🌿 by Himanshu Rane
  • TrailEcho: An Offline Open-Source AI Audio Field Guide by Krishna Sarkar

My Agent Session & Prize Categories:

  • Target Category: Touch Grass
  • Partner Category: Best Use of Render

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