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thebardchat — Pi 5 in a closet to orbital sail · Faith · Family · Sobriety · Local AI · Left-Behind User
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Shane Brazelton · thebardchat

Concrete dispatch operator. Father of five. Sober 885 days. Building local AI for the people Big Tech left behind.


Showcase Twitch Book Claude HuggingFace Stars



I run a Raspberry Pi 5 out of a closet in Hazel Green, Alabama.

On it: 17 autonomous AI bots, a 42-tool MCP server, a Weaviate vector database with 25 collections, a Twitch bot, a Discord bot, a financial dashboard, a medical billing platform, a noir audiobook engine, and a concrete dispatch system for 18 drivers.

Zero cloud. Zero subscriptions. Zero Big Tech dependency.

I built all of it while running concrete dispatch by day and raising five boys with my wife Tiffany. I'm sober. I'm not a developer by trade. I just couldn't stop building.

"The internet has enough darkness. This is the opposite of that."


The Mission

800 million people are about to lose Windows 10 support.
Most of them have never touched AI.
Big Tech isn't coming for them.

I am.

ShaneBrain → Angel Cloud → Pulsar Sentinel → TheirNameBrain → 800M users

Every repo on this profile exists somewhere on that map.


BGKPJR — The Aerospace Work

The missing link in the Space Pipeline. Blue Origin and SpaceX are building the lunar landers. NASA flies Artemis crews every 10 months. Nobody yet has a way to get cargo into low Earth orbit cheaply enough to feed a permanent moon base. We do.

The BGKPJR Space Pipeline: Earth surface to LEO via 37 km maglev rail; LEO to lunar orbit via permanent Space Tug; lunar orbit to surface via Blue Moon Mk2 / SpaceX HLS lander; empty pods become regolith-filled radiation-proof base structures

Earth → LEO → Moon → Base. Four phases, one mission. Every empty pod that lands becomes a "Space LEGO" — filled with lunar regolith for radiation-proof base structures. Watch the cycle loop.


The Manhattan Timeline

Phase Years Status
Phase 0 — Concept maturation, NIAC submission, dimensional reconciliation 2026–2028 🟢 ACTIVE
Phase 1 — Manna cargo pipeline (unmanned) 2029–2033 🔵 PRIMARY OBJECTIVE
Phase 2 — Gryphon crewed vehicle 2034+ ⚪ DEFERRED

Operational unmanned cargo pipeline in 7–9 years. Parallel to NASA Artemis crew launches every 10 months using SpaceX HLS or Blue Moon Mk2 landers. Lunar base target: 2029. Every Artemis crew that arrives finds a base already supplied by BGKPJR.


Stage 1 — The Rail (Canonical Specs · 2026-04-30)

Tube length         │ 37 km evacuated coilgun
Drive architecture  │ Linear Synchronous Motor · copper drive coils + REBCO armature
Operating temp      │ 20 K (LH₂ cryogenic)
Exit velocity       │ Mach 5 · 1,700 m/s · 4G sustained
Run time            │ 43.5 seconds, end to end
Tube pressure       │ 0.05 atm (within Patent BGKPJR-001 envelope)
Coils               │ 7,400 coils @ 5 m spacing · 8 T peak field
Energy stored       │ 580 GJ · 39 GW peak draw
Muzzle              │ TWO ALTERNATIVES under trade study: LH₂ membrane (canonical) or thermite (alternative)

Cost target: $1,025/kg LEO (vs. $2,720/kg Falcon 9). Total infrastructure: $85–120 B.


Inside the Tube — Live Coilgun Sequence

Stage 1 — 37 km electromagnetic launch tube with sequential coilgun firing, traveling pod, LH₂ muzzle membrane, and live Mach / velocity / distance / G-load / energy readouts. Representative section showing 14 of 7,400 coils.

Sequential coilgun firing · leading coils pull · trailing coils de-energize · pod accelerates 0 → Mach 5 in 43.5 seconds · 580 GJ stored. Representative section: 14 of 7,400 coils shown.


🎯 Pre-Lukens Audit · 2026-04-30

The whole BGKPJR repository set was audited dimensional-integrity-end-to-end before going for review by Scott Lukens, Senior Systems Engineer at Victory Solutions Inc. (a NASA Marshall Space Flight Center contractor in Huntsville, AL). We caught and reconciled three different baselines that had drifted apart, fixed mutually-incompatible math, and aligned every visualization with a single source of truth. The full audit and decision record are public:

Pre-Phase-A aerospace concepts that hide their gaps fail review on first contact. The goal is to know the gaps better than any reviewer will, document them publicly, and ladder up.


Repo What It Is Live
BGKPJR-Launch-Vis NASA-ready 3D animated launch visualization — Three.js + Astro + Svelte Demo ↗
manna-pods 7 Manna cargo pod concepts — 3D rotating cross-sections, full specs Demo ↗
manna Original Manna cargo pod design research Repo ↗
BGKPJR-Core-Simulations Physics engine — trajectory, GNC, thermal, Monte Carlo Repo ↗
tug-pro Pre-Phase A reusable cislunar tug — 3D orbit viz, ΔV calculator Repo ↗

The Ecosystem

🧠 ShaneBrain (Pi 5, primary node)
   └── 17 MEGA Crew bots — Sparky/Volt/Neon/Glitch (Brain) + 13 more
   └── 42-tool MCP server (FastMCP, port 8100)
   └── Weaviate 1.36.2 on neworleans — 25 collections, 3,200+ objects
   └── N8N automation workflows
   └── Discord + Twitch bots
   └── 5 AM morning briefing every day
   └── gulfshores — Surface 1, Node.js v24, dev/build node

🚀 BGKPJR Aerospace
   └── Electromagnetic launch architecture (patent filed)
   └── Three.js 3D visualizations, live on GitHub Pages
   └── 7 Manna cargo pod variants documented
   └── Physics engine: rail, GNC, Kepler sail math

🌐 Angel Cloud (public platform)
   └── Mental wellness + AI sentiment
   └── Messenger storyteller (OPTOUT/ANON/FORGET)
   └── Tailscale Funnel public endpoint

🔐 Pulsar Sentinel (post-quantum)
   └── ML-KEM / Kyber-1024 lattice encryption
   └── Dilithium3 signatures
   └── Deployed across all cluster nodes

🎯 TheirNameBrain (next)
   └── Personalized AI for the left-behind user
   └── Legacy hardware, no cloud required

The Stack

Layer Tool Why
Primary Node Raspberry Pi 5 (16GB) $80. Runs everything.
Storage NVMe RAID 1 (2×2TB) Because data matters
Data Node neworleans — Weaviate 1.36.2 + N8N Dedicated inference + automation
Vector DB Weaviate (25 collections, 3,200+ objects) Long memory
AI Tools MCP Server v2.3 (42 tools) Claude talks to everything
Co-builder Claude by Anthropic Not a tool. A partner.
Containers Docker + 17 MEGA Crew bots Ship it
Automation N8N + systemd (30+ services) Never stop
Viz Stack Astro + Svelte 5 + Three.js Aerospace UIs

What's Live Right Now

Project What It Does Link
🚀 BGKPJR-Launch-Vis NASA-ready 3D animated launch visualization thebardchat.github.io/BGKPJR-Launch-Vis
🛸 manna-pods 7 Manna cargo pod 3D cross-sections thebardchat.github.io/manna-pods
📺 Twitch Channel Family streaming, AI demos, love & light twitch.tv/thebardchat
🤖 MEGA Crew 17 autonomous bots, 24/7, all local thebardchat.github.io/mega-crew
🔧 ShaneBrain MCP 42-tool MCP server for Claude github.com/thebardchat/shanebrain_mcp
☁️ Angel Cloud Family wellness platform + Messenger bot github.com/thebardchat/angel-cloud
🛡️ Pulsar Sentinel Post-quantum security framework github.com/thebardchat/pulsar_sentinel
🧠 ThoughtTree Local AI mind mapping thebardchat.github.io/thought-tree
🎓 AI-Trainer-MAX 36-module local AI curriculum github.com/thebardchat/AI-Trainer-MAX
🏗️ srm-dispatch Concrete dispatch PWA for 18 drivers thebardchat.github.io/srm-dispatch

The Book

You Probably Think This Book Is About You

Fifty-five noir vignettes about ego, identity, and the American South. Dark but honest. Cynical but human. Written in Hazel Green, Alabama. Built on a Raspberry Pi 5. Published on Amazon.

It was always about you. It was never only about you.

Buy on Amazon · Repo


GitHub Stats

GitHub Stats

Top Languages

GitHub Streak


The Released Treasures

Eight projects recovered from old drives and released to GitHub in April 2026.

Project What It Does Pages
🎓 AI-Trainer-MAX 36-module local AI curriculum, zero cloud Pages ↗
☁️ angelcloud-actual Firebase wellness platform, Pulsar blockchain Pages ↗
🌳 thought-tree React mind-mapping, Weaviate semantic search Pages ↗
🏗️ srm-dispatch SRM Concrete dispatch PWA — 18 drivers Pages ↗
🤖 mini-shanebrain Social bot: X, FB, LinkedIn, Instagram, Bluesky, Threads Pages ↗
💎 treasures Master archive hub Pages ↗

The Constitution

Every repo here operates under one governing document.

Nine pillars. One covenant. No exceptions.

Faith. Family. Sobriety. Love & Light. Authenticity. Local AI. The Left-Behind. Community. Purpose.

Read the Constitution →


Built With Claude

Try Claude free for 2 weeks — the AI that co-built this entire ecosystem. Start your free trial →

Shane is the vision. Claude is the velocity. Never "one guy built this."


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Faith · Family · Sobriety · Local AI · The Left-Behind User

Hazel Green, Alabama · 2026

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    The governing covenant of the ShaneBrain ecosystem — nine pillars, engineering ethics, community rules. Faith. Family. Local AI. The left-behind user.

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    36-module AI training curriculum — from zero to local AI sovereignty in 5 phases. Windows .bat scripts, Ollama, Weaviate, MCP. Built for the 800M left behind.

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    The ShaneBrain ecosystem hub — local AI infrastructure, 17 autonomous bots, noir audiobooks, and a Twitch channel. All running on a Pi 5 in Alabama.

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    Workflow automation hub for the ShaneBrain ecosystem — n8n connecting 42 MCP tools, Weaviate, Discord, social media, and every service. Local, no cloud.

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    A concrete dispatch operator in Alabama building local AI for the 800M people Big Tech left behind. Faith. Family. Sobriety. Raspberry Pi 5. All local. All yours.