Bourne Forge AI

Forging practical ideas with artificial intelligence

This site documents Mark Bourne's hands-on AI development work: real projects, technical observations and practical experiments, built on a background in Internet architecture and infrastructure.

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PlantID — From Paddock to Plot

Prototype

A field guide for crops, pastures and gardens: point a camera at any plant to identify it, then track it through a garden journal, care schedules and a geo-tagged plant map.

React Native
Expo
Rork

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LocScout — Scouting, Sun & Sync

Prototype

A location-scouting companion for film and production crews: capture GPS-tagged photos on-site, analyse sun position and shooting windows, and organise locations into projects — fully offline-capable with cloud sync.

React Native
Expo
Supabase
Rork

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BlindGuard — Jetty Watch

Prototype

A wind-monitoring companion for a jetty property: streams live data from an Ecowitt weather station, automatically raises Neo Smart Blinds when gusts exceed a set threshold, and lets you check conditions via an Arlo camera — all from one app.

React Native
Expo
Ecowitt
IFTTT
Arlo
Rork

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Abyss — Aquatic Ecosystem Simulator

Prototype

A living ecosystem simulator: feed a tank of fish, watch them breed, hunt and age, and manage a pollution meter with filter upgrades — survive as long as you can before the ecosystem collapses.

React Native
Expo
Rork

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Event Photo Booth — Leave Us a Message

Prototype

A wedding and event photo booth app: guests capture photo, video and voice messages from any device, and the admin downloads everything afterwards as a single ZIP file to save to Dropbox, Google Drive or any cloud storage.

React Native
Expo
JSZip
Rork

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AI Travel Planning

Planned

Exploring how AI can assist with itinerary research, logistics comparisons and trade-off analysis for travel planning.

Prompt Design
Structured Data

Technical Troubleshooting Assistant

Planned

Applying AI reasoning to networking and infrastructure troubleshooting workflows, drawing on Internet architecture experience.

Networking
Diagnostics
AI Reasoning