Communicate
Talk and share
Messaging and communication software that can work between devices directly — including
tools designed for low-bandwidth links and portable radio. Useful when the usual networks
are down, expensive, or simply unavailable where you are.
Find knowledge
Look things up offline
A curated, readable library: practical help, community information, repair guidance and
reference material chosen to be genuinely useful without a connection. Content is added
selectively — with permission and a clear source — not bulk-copied.
Repair & reuse
Bring devices back to life
Tools and instructions for getting more out of laptops, phones and routers that would
otherwise be written off — extending the useful life of hardware you already own.
Connect & build networks
Make your own links
Software and guides for creating local connections between devices and places —
sharing within a building, a street, or a community, with or without outside internet.
Organise resources
Keep track and coordinate
Help for the unglamorous essentials: lists, plans, inventories and shared records —
the organisational glue that makes everything else actually usable.
Create & develop
Build on top
The box is not a sealed product — its contents are documented, verified and meant to be
understood, adapted and extended by the people who carry it.
Explore the tools
The software collection
A checked, checksummed set of packages — communications, radio, networking and Android tools —
each with its source, licence and install instructions recorded. See SOFTWARE/MANIFEST.md
on the USB for the verified inventory.