Pocket Oracle

Small handmade wooden box, with a small orange button and LED screen with writing on it .

Top-down view of the small wooden box with the orange button. The screen on the top reads

Small wooden box without the lid, next to it sits the LED screen, which is wired into a microcontroller below. which sits atop a battery.

The Pocket Oracle was a pocket-sized esoteric advice generator. At the press of a button the device randomly assembles a string of text generated from a handmade API, resulting in one of a possible of 203,112,000 unique answers. After having downloading the JSON, the device can also work offline. The advice is often nonsensical, and occasionally profound. The cryptic and mysterious messages are meant to be interpreted by the individual user. Some choice epiphanies from the device included:

“Maybe you should question the advice re life. Fate is sealed.”

“You have to flee your smile before death. Are you ready?”

“I know! Just think your dad into death. That’s the solution”