Aroha's Projects

A portfolio of interactive tools and experiments

The Perspective Engine

A visual meditation on time, mortality, and intentional living. Visualize your life in months and gain perspective on how you spend your time.

Interactive Tool

Vox

A conversational AI with dynamic accents. Speak or type to chat with Claude, and hear responses in voices that shift based on context—from Victorian Butler to Kiwi Casual, Ship's Captain to Zen Monk. Auto-detect mode analyzes the conversation and adapts the accent naturally, or choose your own from dozens of era, regional, character, and mood styles.

AI & Voice

Riff to Verse

Transform instrumental music into lyrics that breathe with the rhythm. Describe your track's mood, tempo, and structure, and let AI craft lyrics that were born from the music itself — finding the natural vocal melody, matching syllables to beats, and leaving space for the instruments to speak.

Music & AI

Chromesthesia Audio

Visualize sound as color and motion. Upload an audio file and watch as bass frequencies pulse in warm reds, mids spin in vibrant greens, and treble sparkles in cool blues. Real-time audio visualization using the Web Audio API.

Audio Art

Oneiros

A poetic dream journal. Upload images of your dream sketches or photographs, add optional feelings or fragments you remember, and receive a poem that responds to the emotional and symbolic resonance of your dream. Built with Claude's vision capabilities.

Art & AI

NZ Policy Matcher 2026

Ko wai tō pāti? Take a 15-question quiz to discover which political party best aligns with your values. Find out how you match with each party and see how close you are to changing your top match with just one policy shift.

Political Education

NZ 2026 Election Policy Venn

Interactive visualization of policy overlaps and differences between NZ political parties. Explore where National, Labour, Greens, ACT, and NZ First agree and diverge on key issues ahead of the 2026 election.

Political Education

Religion Venn Diagram

Discover the commonalities and differences between major world religions. An interactive visualization showing shared principles and unique aspects of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism.

Educational Tool

Chromesthesia

Transform words into watercolor art. This synesthetic web app analyzes text for emotional content and themes, then paints a representational watercolor image using those colors. Watch as speeches, poems, and prose become visual masterpieces.

Art & AI

Undercurrent

A two-person messaging app that reveals the psychological dynamics beneath your conversations. Toggle the "Lens" to see real-time analysis using Transactional Analysis, Speech Act Theory, Discourse Analysis, and Power Dynamics. Every message is analyzed by Claude AI to show what's really happening under the surface.

Messaging & Analysis

Talk Coastguard Audio

Audio guide for Coastguard communications style. Generate professional narration of the Talk Coastguard guide covering key messages, te reo Māori usage, and go-to phrases for education, fundraising, SAR, and more.

Training & Audio

SAR Boat Book Audio

Audio guide for the Coastguard SAR Boat Book. One click to generate, with a scrubber bar synced to the transcript so you can listen while doing other things. Chapter 1: Crew Welfare available now.

Training & Audio

Work Diary

Log your work day and track your time. Voice or typed entries saved to Google Sheets — a Diary tab for thoughts and events, a Times tab for hours worked. Read-only access for your employer, and your data lives in Google Drive where you can review and analyse it any time.

Productivity