Mindful Makers Hack #7 - AI Meditation Hack with Embraceland
🧘♀️ Mindful Makers: Mindfulness Hack #7 - AI Meditation Hack with Embraceland
Join us on Saturday, Feb. 28th for Mindful Makers Hack #7 with Embraceland (https://iembraceland.com/).
Zoe Li and her team at Embraceland are open-sourcing access to the core components of the Embraceland meditation app, which powers a global community of 1,000+ meditators.
With this technology, we’ll be building with:
🔊 TTS: Embraceland’s text-to-speech model, fine-tuned for generating procedural meditations
📳 Haptic feedback: Embraceland's app and SDK incorporates research from Harvard in the relationship between psychology, calm, and haptic feedback.
🌌 Soundscapes + VFX: AI-generated visual effects and soundscapes to accompany meditaton to produce comprehensive procedural experiences.
You’re welcome to build your own meditation app, or incorporate your meditation experience directly into the Embraceland app.
We'll spend the day designing and building apps, websites, and tools that promote mindfulness in everyday life. Our belief is simple: technology can deepen presence, connection, and well-being.
To test our creations, we'll use them ourselves in the days that follow — and see if they truly cultivate ease, warmth, spaciousness, generosity, and connection.
💡 Who Should Join
Meditators: Some experience with meditation is encouraged (occasional dabblers are welcome!).
Non-coders welcome: You don't need to be a programmer — we'll keep a balanced ratio of coders to non-coders (~1:1) so everyone can contribute meaningfully (laptop required)
🌐 See: mindfulmakers.xyz for more details.
🗓️ Schedule
9:45 AM — Breakfast
10:00 – 10:30 AM — Welcome + Overview.
10:30 – 10:45 AM — Group meditation
10:45 – 11:15 AM — Idea brainstorming
11:15 AM – 1:30 PM — Make!
1:30 PM — Lunch & Check-in
1:30 – 6:30 PM — Keep making!
6:30 PM — Wind-down exercise
6:35 PM – 7:30 PM — Group presentations
📍 MIT, Location announced closer to date