Aura Direct Hardware

Open systems for open minds

Aura, direct to hardware.

Three paths run together: use today’s processors, explore FPGA and custom-silicon ideas, and build a decentralised global compute commons with an expanding Space Web.

Explore the silicon branches Open the modelling loop Explore the learning hops Enter the compute commons
Established evidence Working experiment Research Exploration frontier

Four simultaneous facets

Your question. Your hardware choices.

“Direct to hardware” begins at any chosen point: simulate a new architecture, adapt a current chip, rewire an FPGA, tape out a small-batch ASIC or attempt a clean-sheet SoC. The shared model keeps evidence from every branch visible side by side.

As information, collaborators and needs change, people fork, combine, pause or abandon directions. Apple A12, Snapdragon, Dimensity, Kirin and Exynos are reference points, while the next move belongs to each builder.

Inquiry

Questions + needs

Any question worth exploring becomes a beginning. Latency, memory, energy, heat and privacy become observations whenever they help the next choice.

Models

Open simulation

Forkable models, portable software, local data and visible assumptions let many architectures evolve in parallel.

Prototypes

Owned prototypes

Carrier boards, sensors, radios, FPGA logic and hand-built devices assembled, altered and rebuilt by the people using them.

Fabrication

Self-sovereign silicon

Architecture simulation, agent-supported register-transfer-level rewriting, FPGA experiments and small batches through accessible process design kits and shuttle routes all sit on the map. Mature and advanced nodes carry different costs, physics and design commitments.

Three concurrent paths

Existing hardware. Imagined silicon. A connected commons.

The branches share one open Aura interface and evidence format. Each moves on its own rhythm while discoveries flow between current silicon, new silicon and the compute commons.

Current silicon

Use current silicon

An open Aura reference stack runs on available Arm, AMD, NVIDIA and other systems. Real workloads reveal privacy, energy, heat and latency in the places where people use them.

Explore present-day products →
Custom silicon

Design custom silicon

FPGA, ASIC, chiplet and complete-SoC experiments unfold in parallel. Self-sovereign builders choose, fabricate, compare and redirect as their information and needs evolve.

Explore the silicon branches →
Compute commons

Federate the compute commons

Locally governed town containers meet through open protocols. Ready S.E.T. is the smaller place-based co-operative fractal; GAJRA Earth is the global association and purpose layer. The same provenance and delay-tolerant networking extend into the Space Web.

Model 40,000 town nodes →

Both at once

Field prototype + living digital twin.

Planning the future is useful when the model keeps touching reality. These two streams run in parallel and exchange measurements every cycle.

A

Physical learning stream

Aura on existing hardware now

  • Linux and Android-class Arm systems host immediate prototypes.
  • Battery, thermal, latency, radio and privacy observations inform each fork.
  • Open carrier boards and sensor interfaces keep the physical system adaptable.
  • Interesting architectures and bottlenecks gain another view through FPGA logic.
B

Digital-twin stream

Many imagined systems in the model

  • CPU, NPU, DSP, SRAM and interconnect options remain open comparisons.
  • Energy, heat, cost, reliability and failure become visible in simulation.
  • Homes, industry, subterranean scenarios and networks sit together in the model.
  • Track A observations replace assumptions as evidence arrives.

One commons, many bodies

Demanding places keep opening new questions.

Each environment brings its own physics, people, evidence and control history. An open software, evidence and governance layer keeps those differences visible.

Working experiment

XR wearables

Local speech, personal context, sensor fusion and privacy controls on glasses and companion devices chosen by their users.

Raven, Mentra and open alternatives →
Exploration frontier Open simulation

Subterranean city

Explore structures, geology, water, heat, fire, access, Country and maintenance freely in simulation. Physical works meet the people and living systems they affect.

Explore the design space →
Research Parallel branches

Island network + space

Model local mesh, commercial backhaul, payloads and a constellation in parallel. Each physical link carries the responsibilities of shared spectrum and orbit.

Explore the Space Web branches →
Established evidence Source bridge

Mineral Moonshots

The deeper material, energy, food, compute and island-systems context remains in its own atlas.

Open Mineral Moonshots ↗

Not-for-profit purpose

The system serves life. Revenue is one support stream; purpose stays with life and community.

Commons choices visible from day one

  • Open interfaces and portable data form a shared meeting ground.
  • Personal, cultural and biological data stay with the people and custodians who hold them.
  • Community and Country governance retains each decision about whether a project moves forward.
  • Material claims carry their evidence state and source trail.
  • Consent and public mandate remain with the people who give them; agents, founders and investors carry no substitute authority.
Read the governance compact

Sibling project

Grain by Grain holds the wider civilisation map.

Aura Direct Hardware stays focused on compute, sensors and evidence. Grain by Grain carries the broader Minjerribah resilience field, the threat register and the map of connected projects.

A living research map

Every claim keeps its evidence state.

This site distinguishes public facts, vendor claims, buildable work, research questions and exploration frontiers. The source register keeps those differences visible.