The Apocalypse Reference Kit for southern Oregon: plain-English survival guides, the books behind them, and an AI that answers from both. Save it and it works with no internet.
Not sure? Leave it on Automatic. It picks what this device can handle, times a test answer, and steps down if it's too slow. Your choice is remembered for this device.
You're using the library shared from another device. Only that device can change the AI or stop sharing.
🗺️ A bigger map
📟 How the Pi is doing
Updates every few seconds. Look at it while the AI is answering: when it has nothing to do, a Pi runs slowly on purpose to save power.
📡 Share with phones nearby
Let every phone, tablet or laptop on the same Wi-Fi use this library in its web browser — iPhones too. No internet needed: the search and the AI run on this device.
No Wi-Fi? Turn on a phone's hotspot (mobile data can stay off) or use a small travel router, and connect this device and the other phones to it. If Windows or the Mac asks whether to allow network access, choose Allow.
🤖 Offline AI
💾 Get the whole library on a USB drive
The full library adds every book, all of Wikipedia, maps that work with no signal, and an AI that needs no internet. No commands to type:
Download the kit and unzip it.
Double-click INSTALL-Windows (or INSTALL-Mac).
In the page that opens, pick your drive and press Start.
⏸️ You can stop it any time and carry on later. Run it again, pick the same drive and press Continue: it picks up where it left off and fetches anything that failed.
🧰 Building the ARK Vault (the ammo-can computer)? This is the same kit. It fills the Vault's library drive, then finishes its Raspberry Pi's memory card. The ARK Vault guide
A steel ammo can that holds this library on a small computer (a Raspberry Pi), a battery, the chargers to fill it from the sun or the wall, a little printer, a crank radio and an old phone to read it on. Sealed, it's shielded from an EMP. Open the lid and flip the power switch on, and the phone (or any phone nearby) uses the library and the AI over the Vault's own Wi-Fi, with no internet and no power grid.
The ARK Vault in about three minutes: what it is, what’s inside, the guides and tools, the printer, and power after an EMP. With music; it plays from the website, so it needs the internet.
The guide has the parts list, the files to 3D-print and laser-cut, the wiring, and how the installer kit prepares the Pi so it sets itself up.
📥 Save for offline use
Once saved, search, guides and tools work on this device with no internet. The AI model (above) is saved separately when you turn it on.
Turn-by-turn directions to every town. A route's GPS track (for a map app) downloads from that route's page, one at a time.
Roads, topo lines, property lines and public land for the Illinois Valley. Saved on the phone, the map shows where you are with no signal.
Keep it on your home screen. iPhone/iPad: in Safari tap Share → Add to Home Screen. Android: in Chrome tap ⋮ → Install app. Computers: the install icon in the address bar. Phones may clear saved data for websites you haven't opened in a while unless they're on the home screen — open it now and then.
ARK Illinois Valley