BRAIN
A concrete dispatch operator in Hazel Green, Alabama building things that aren't supposed to exist out here — a 4-node AI cluster, 18 autonomous bots, patent-filed electromagnetic launch architecture, and a published noir book. All on a Raspberry Pi 5. All local. All mine.
What's Moving Right Now
Live status straight off the cluster. This isn't a portfolio of finished things — it's a machine that's running while you read this.
Session Continuity
Every Claude Code session now boots knowing prior context — sobriety, last 3 sessions, last mood — pulled straight from Weaviate at preflight. Zero cold starts. Phase 2 next: gateway routes so Claude web, desktop, and mobile read/write the same memory.
Book II — "…This Song Is About You Too"
17 tracks. Locked architecture. The follow-up to the published noir collection — written the same way the first one was: sober, at 4 AM, with a brain farm humming in the next room.
MEGA Crew Comic Pipeline
The 18 bots got their own comic. Gemini writes episodes, Z-Image renders the panels, the pipeline pushes finished pages to GitHub Pages — no human in the loop.
HaloFinance
Private family financial dashboard — 31-bill SMS reminder system, local-first, port 9998. The family's money never leaves the house.
mcp.shanebrain.cloud
Cloudflare tunnel pointing the new shanebrain.cloud domain at the Pi's MCP server. One brain, reachable from any Claude surface, keys stay home.
Wrestling Facility
Build project for the Hazel Green youth wrestling program. CAD complete. Because the mission was never just software.
Ground-based superconducting electromagnets replace the first stage of every rocket ever built. A 28.7 km evacuated maglev tube accelerates to Mach 3.5 in 23 seconds — no propellant consumed. Gryphon wings carry it to orbit. Kepler's 1,200 m² solar sail takes it beyond. Target cost: $200/kg to lunar surface. Current: $1,200,000/kg via CLPS.
The Rail
28.7 km evacuated superconducting tube. NbTi coils at 4.2K, 8T field strength. Partial vacuum at 0.1 atm eliminates aerodynamic drag. Human-rated at 3.9G sustained.
The Wing
At tube exit, variable-geometry wings deploy instantly. Aerodynamic lift extends the boost window from Mach 3.5 to Mach 8 — using the atmosphere as a free energy source. Glides back unpowered.
The Sail
Above 310 km, a 1,200 m² CP1 Polyimide solar sail deploys from a 3.2 kg boom. Zero propellant. Zero fuel mass fraction. Solar pressure at 1 AU: 1.8 mm/s² continuous thrust. Forever.
ShaneBrain — The Living System
Claude (the intelligence) + Weaviate (Shane's growing memory) + MCP (the nervous system) = ShaneBrain. Not a chatbot. A brain that grows with every session, every voice dump, every decision made.
Built & Deployed
Every project built in production. Most used daily. All open source.
SRM Concrete PWA dispatch tool for 18 drivers. Real crew config, Bridgeport rotation, one-tap copy-to-text. No backend. No database. No login. Used every single morning.
5-phase local AI training curriculum — 36 modules, zero cloud. From "first local LLM" to owning your own AI brain. Built for the 800M people left behind when Windows 10 support ended.
React + Python visual thought browser. Node-based mind mapping on a dark full-screen canvas. Live semantic search through Weaviate knowledge collections.
FastMCP server running 29 native tools — knowledge search, calendar, vault, drafts, social, security logs, system health, Weaviate RAG, email, reminders. The nervous system of ShaneBrain.
Wellness platform + Messenger storyteller. FastAPI gateway with Tailscale Funnel, SQLite sessions, Weaviate RAG, SecurityLog pipeline, Facebook Messenger bot with OPTOUT/ANON/FORGET commands.
Multi-platform social bot: posts to X, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Bluesky, and Threads from a unified Weaviate backend on a cron schedule. AI-disclosure required.
SRM Concrete Standard Operating Procedures — full dispatch, crew management, and safety protocol documentation. Built for real field conditions in North Alabama construction.
Medical billing intake platform for Gavin. Python/FastAPI backend, structured claim ingestion, automated coding assistance. Replacing a manual process that costs thousands of hours.
Angel Cloud platform codebase — Firebase social wellness app, Pulsar blockchain security core, North Alabama logistics API, aggregate pricing engine, and AI agent blueprints.
Master hub for all recovered projects — scripts, creative work, data, and code scanned from external drives in April 2026. Complete artifact archive with treasure map index.
The Books
Fifty-five noir vignettes set in the American South. Each one a portrait — a dispatcher at 4 AM, a man who can't leave a town that never held him, a woman deciding what to do with what's left. Paperback, ebook, and audiobook.
PROBABLY
THINK
THIS
SONG IS
ABOUT
YOU TOO
The follow-up. Seventeen tracks, locked architecture, built song by song the same way the first book was built story by story. Currently in demo status — being written right now, sessions logged to the same brain that remembers everything else.
Faith. Family. Sobriety. Local AI. The left-behind user.
The Stack
Everything runs local. No cloud subscriptions. No vendor lock-in. Pi before cloud, every time.
- Raspberry Pi 5 — 16 GB RAM, main orchestrator
- Pironman 5-MAX — NVMe RAID chassis by Sunfounder
- RAID 1 — 2× WD Blue SN5000 2TB NVMe via mdadm
- 8TB External — Seagate ANGEL_CLOUD backup
- 16 GB RAID swapfile — expanded April 2026
- Weaviate 1.36.2 — 28 collections, port 8080
- text2vec-transformers — MiniLM-L6-v2, 384-dim
- N8N — automation workflows, port 5678
- Postgres + Redis — N8N backing store
- 3,200+ knowledge objects — growing daily at 4 AM
- MCP Server — 44 tools, port 8100, Docker
- Mega Dashboard — 24 panels, port 8300
- Angel Cloud Gateway — FastAPI, port 4200
- MEGA Crew — 18 bot containers, docker-compose
- ShaneBrain Agents — 7 specialists, port 8400
- Pulsar Sentinel PQC — port 8250 · Voice Dump — 8200
- Portainer — port 9000 · InfluxDB — 8086
- gulfshores — Surface Pro, Linux Mint, primary dev box
- bullfrog — TrueNAS Scale, 8TB ZFS pool "tank"
- pulsar00100 — Windows cockpit / jump box
- iPhone 13 — Taildrop file drops, on-mesh
- Tailscale mesh — all nodes, no raw IPs anywhere