Everyone on this Vault’s Wi‑Fi can read these, and so can every radio in range on the same channel. It is a notice board, not a safe.
Save ARK to this device
Keep guides and tools available when you’re offline. Save maps, walking routes, and AI separately.
Guides and toolsSearch, every guide and the tools
Walking routesTurn-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.
Illinois Valley mapRoads, topo lines, property lines and public land for the Illinois Valley . Saved on the phone, the map shows where you are with no signal.
Plant & mushroom identifierThe picture model , so you can photograph a plant and have it named with no signal at all. Slow on a phone — about 20 seconds a photo. Not needed if you carry the drive or use the ARK Vault.
Offline content must finish saving before you disconnect.
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.
This library is on a drive
Every guide, book, the map and the tools are already here, and work with no internet.
Detailed offline map
Sharp satellite photos
Offline AI settings
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.
This library is hosted on another device. Change AI and sharing settings on that device.
Offline AI settings
Ask questions without internet. The AI is saved on this device and reads only the library.
AI answers can be wrong. Check the numbered sources, especially for medical, electrical, chemical, or structural questions.
Share with nearby devices
Other phones, tablets, and computers on the same local network can open this library in a browser. Internet is not required: the search and the AI run on this device. iPhones too.
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.
ARK Vault
A battery-powered library that nearby devices can use without internet. A steel ammo can 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. Open the lid and flip the power switch on, and any phone nearby uses the library and the AI over the Vault's own Wi-Fi.
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 setup tool prepares the Pi so it sets itself up.
Vault system status
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.
Complete offline library (USB)
Every book, all of Wikipedia, maps that work with no signal, and an AI that needs no internet. Download the setup tool, choose a drive, and select the library content you want.
Download and unzip the setup tool.
Run the installer for your operating system (INSTALL-Windows or INSTALL-Mac).
One zip, about 40 MB (the installer kit) · Windows, Mac, Linux. The zip is the installer, not the whole library.
You can run the installer again and continue an interrupted download: pick the same drive and press Continue.
Building an ARK Vault? This is the same setup tool. It fills the Vault's library drive, then finishes its Raspberry Pi's memory card. The ARK Vault guide
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.
Answers come from a small AI and can be wrong — check the numbered sources, especially for medical, electrical, chemical or structural questions. This is reference material, not professional advice.
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