DIVINER: 16 Rites for the M5Stack Cardputer ADV

A Daedric-skinned pocket computing environment with synthesizers, network reconnaissance, ASCII 3D, Wi-Fi motion sensing, and a Gemini browser.

I wanted the Cardputer ADV to feel like something stranger than a collection of ESP32 utilities.Not another menu of vaguely related tools. Something with its own identity. An operating environment that feels like it was recovered from a machine that probably shouldn't have existed.

The result is DIVINER, a custom firmware environment for the M5Stack Cardputer ADV containing sixteen applications, called rites, divided into four domains: Sound, Sight, The Wired, and Wards.

It combines experimental audio synthesis, procedural graphics, network diagnostics, wireless observation, and a surprisingly functional little corner of the alternative internet. All dressed in a Daedric interface inspired by Morrowind, Serial Experiments Lain, and the general idea that computers used to be allowed to look mysterious.

The interface is part of the machine

DIVINER has a custom, hand-rasterized Daedric glyph font and a blood-and-ember color scheme.

Applications appear in a carousel written in Daedric script. Select one and the glyphs dissolve into readable English. 

The interface has its own sound effects, navigation behavior, and visual conventions. It's deliberately unlike the usual embedded-device dashboard.

Underneath the atmosphere, though, there's actual software doing actual work.

SOUND: a synthesizer hiding in a pocket computer

Three of DIVINER's rites are dedicated to making noise.

DRONE is a five-voice generative synthesizer with drifting oscillators, resonant low-pass filtering, wind, bells, and dark delay effects. It's designed for slow, evolving sound rather than conventional melodies.

SEQ is a miniature groovebox with kick, snare, hi-hat, acid synthesis, Euclidean fills, four pattern banks, song mode, and pattern saving/loading.

BEAT is a bytebeat livecoding instrument. Enter a C expression using t and hear the result immediately.

There is something deeply satisfying about turning a small embedded computer into an instrument that sounds like a corrupted answering machine discovered in a basement.

SIGHT: graphics from an alternate timeline

The graphics rites explore how much atmosphere can be squeezed out of a small display.

WIRED renders ASCII-based 3D structures, including toruses, wireframe solids, tunnels, and a navigation sphere.

VISIONS generates plasma fields, an Oblivion-inspired gate, ash-fire, falling Daedric glyphs, and a heptagram kaleidoscope.

ORACLE casts three runes, accompanied by synthesized bell chimes.

These aren't image viewers. The point is generating strange little worlds directly on the hardware.

THE WIRED: watching the invisible infrastructure

This domain is where DIVINER starts behaving more like a pocket cyberdeck.

LINK handles Wi-Fi connections, remembers networks, detects captive portals, and provides a way to accept supported portal pages.

SCRY presents nearby Wi-Fi networks as a constellation rather than a conventional scan list.

LISTEN provides a receive-only wireless channel monitor with an audible representation of activity.

KIN visualizes nearby Bluetooth devices as drifting familiars.

NET discovers hosts on a local network and examines names and exposed ports.

GEMINI is a TLS-capable gemtext browser, including support for posting. Yes, an actual small-web client running on a Cardputer.

BANISH adds infrared remote-control functions across five protocols.

The aim is to make wireless infrastructure visible, audible, and explorable, instead of reducing everything to rows of numbers.

WARDS: the experimental perimeter

The remaining rites turn the Cardputer toward environmental observation and authorized network assessment.

SENTINEL learns a baseline of nearby devices and alerts when unfamiliar ones appear. It also flags signatures potentially associated with drones. Those are heuristic indicators, not definitive drone identification....

THE ONLINE MAKINGS AND WORLDS CONSTRUCTED BY VOIDRANE SPLICER SCORN AKA NUMBPILLED

    splicer scorn / hidden layer media
    a drifting constellation of projects and ghosts

    most of what i make isn't polished. it's lived-in.
    cracked at the edges. half-feral. written at 3am
    in motel rooms or empty parking lots, or whatever
    counts as shelter that week.

    if you're looking for the whole map, this is as close
    as anyone ever gets.

  projects / worlds / scattered signals:

    • nolove.neocities.org
      the primary wound. journals, fragments, memory static.

    • voidrane.smol.pub
      soft transmissions. colder places. written in a whisper.

    • voidrane.nekoweb.org
      alternate channel. same ghost, different architecture.

    • numbpilled.neocities.org
      archive of older selves.

    • numbpillled.neocities.org
      yes, three l’s. a glitch that became a home.

    • urbindex
      drifting municipal notation. urbex locality app. join today. its in pre-beta. lol.

    • ambien.neocities.org
      dream-text. liminal breathwork. the half-life of sleep.

    • xenotrek.neocities.org
      the lizard-man, the scientist, the myth. elriel’s chosen fracture.

    • hiddenlayermedia.neocities.org
      the imprint behind everything i release. a small black sun.

    • threadlurker.neocities.org
      catalog of small websites, a directory of digital hauntings.

    • azidal.neocities.org
      a darkweb directory/semisearch engine i concocted. 

    • keyreaper2133-r4.neocities.org
      a arduinouno nfc and rfid device i prototyped.

    • libraryofelriel.neocities.org
      where the lore breathes. a drifting cathedral of memories.

    • murkminister.neocities.org
      bog scripture. civil service for the rot gods. marry an anime character, legally!

    • withers.neocities.org
      bone-quiet poetry. dead gardens. a shadow.

    • vivec.neocities.org
      a shrine to memory architecture and half-forgotten divinity. chimspace. threejs flexing.


  storefronts / support / offerings:

    • numbpilled.gumroad.com
      guides, books, tools. survival through documentation.

    • necrogirl.gumroad.com
      html website templates, widgets, and more.

    what i do:

      i write, code, build, break, and rebuild.
      i mythologize myself because no one else ever did.
      i create devices that feel like cursed relics,
      and websites that look like fever-dream ruins.

      elriel is not fiction, not to me. it is the
      geography of everything i refuse to abandon.
      xenotrek is the sharp edge of that world.
      deadgirl is the echo left behind.

      all of this breathes through the projects above.
      none of it is finished.
      none of it is meant to be.

Resources for Webweaving, Digital Architecture, and the Underground Web

RESOURCES FOR WEBWEAVING & DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE 

                      i am a bit of a digital archivist. aren't we all, to a certain degreel..? anyways, i have accumulated a rather sizeable library of links to various utilities, treasures, and tools for webweaving and also some surreal, ambiguous, and downright criminal webworlds. care to take a look..?

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INDIEWEB + NEOCITIES/OLD WEB STYLING

http://neocities.org 

http://nekoweb.org 

http://tilde.club

http://webring.org 

http://sadgrl.online 

http://indieweb.org 

http://1mb.club 

http://weirdgloop.org

http://smol.pub

http://kiosk.nightfall.city 

http://txti.es 

http://zonelets.net 

http://cohost.org

http://html.energy

http://m15o.net/tools

http://yesterweb.org

http://obsolete.industries

DIY HACKING + CYBERDECKS + DIY COMPUTING

http://hackaday.com

http://dangerousprototypes.com

http://lowtechmagazine.com

http://null-byte.wonderhowto.com

http://hackerboxes.com

http://cnlohr.net

http://tinkerdifferent.com

http://microwavestudio.com

http://pwnagotchi.ai

httwr://glitchlab.xyz

http://recyclism.com

http://blinkenlights.net

http://notionink.in

DEEPWEB / DARKNET CULTURE

http://torproject.org

http://deeponion.org

http://dark.fail

http://ahmia.fi

http://thehiddenwiki.org

http://dread.onion (via Tor)

http://raddle.me 

 http://spacehey.com/groups?id=401 (Darknet Society) 

http://inv3rn0.net (Tor only) 

http://deepwebsiteslinks.com

DIY ART + HTML/JS EXPERIMENTATION

http://editor.p5js.org

http://glitch.com

http://codepen.io

http://jsfiddle.net

http://observablehq.com

http://scrollprize.org

http://pointer.pointerpointer.com

http://frankforce.com

http://theuselessweb.com

http://bryce.dev

http://xem.github.io/hexgl

http://superbad.com

http://dan-ball.jp/en

CODE GLYPHS, WEB LORE, FRONTEND ODDITIES

http://lurk.org

http://ctrl-c.club

http://100r.co

http://thehtml.review

http://anlucas.neocities.org

http://dreamdiary.neocities.org

http://alienmelon.com

http://ludumdare.com

http://warp.zone

http://iceberg.cool

http://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31

PSYCHOTRONIC MEDIA + INTERACTIVE WEIRDNESS

http://www.nouspace.net

http://www.ardentheavyindustries.com

http://myopusradio.com

http://tetraspace.io

http://dreamcatalogue.com

http://exmilitary.neocities.org

http://slimepunk.neocities.org

http://warpdoor.com

http://virtualdesktop.neocities.org

http://window-swap.com

http://simone.computer

http://noclip.website

http://corrupt.pizza

http://pferd-am-herd.de

http://apocalypselogs.neocities.org

SELF-HOSTED LIFE + DIGITAL ANARCHY

http://runyourown.social

http://server.party

http://theanarchistlibrary.org

http://projectmeshnet.org

http://guerrillamail.com

http://lokinet.org

http://beakerbrowser.com (archived)

http://ipfs.tech

http://zeronet.io

http://neonnettle.net

http://cryptpad.fr

http://privacytools.io

http://libretube.app

http://reelgood.club (custom streaming hoster)

ALT-TECH, FORGOTTEN BROWSERS + TEXT INTERFACES

http://wiby.me

http://gemini.circumlunar.space

http://gmi.skyjake.fi

http://retroweb.maclab.org

http://lynx.invisible-island.net

http://text.npr.org

http://terminal.land

http://tildeverse.org...