Experiments

Technical experiments, benchmarks, and system tests from the lab.

• Experiments EXP-007 May 29, 2026 8 min read

  From 5B Potato to 14B Frontier — Local Vidgen Finally Works

  EthanC attempted local vidgen in Feb 2026 which proudly produced a potato with a face. Local vidgen was shelved. Three months later, pain forgotten, EthanC tried again with Wan 2.2 . 5 days of community archaeology later — Wan2.2 delivered 720p floating hair and billowy dress at 63°C. Haus is vindicated.

• Experiments EXP-006 May 18, 2026 10 min read

  Pairing Headphones. Accidentally Performed Audio Stack Archaeology

  Connecting the Sony WH-1000XM6 to Haus should have taken five minutes. Instead it exposed broken Bluetooth permissions, a PipeWire/PulseAudio civil war, and a WirePlumber that had quietly stopped showing up to work. The headphones were fine. Haus was not.

• Experiments EXP-005 March 5, 2026 10 min read

  Z-Image: Environments, Lighting & The Cinematography Discovery

  Z-chan passed the baseline test in EXP-004. EXP-005 asks the harder question: how does she think? A systematic environment series — studio, cyberpunk, Shibuya rain, volumetric light, anime vs realistic — to find out what Z-chan is really made of.

• Experiments EXP-004 March 4, 2026 8 min read

  ImageGen Awakens: SDXL vs Z-Image

  The Haus stopped thinking and started imagining. Local image generation from scratch — SDXL vs Z-Image, tested on an RTX 5090, zero cloud dependency, zero mercy.

• Experiments EXP-003 March 2, 2026 8 min read

  Qwen 9B vs 14B — WaifuVoice Companion Model Evaluation

  Two models. One job: feel like a real companion. Qwen 3.5 9B-chan vs Qwen 2.5 14B-chan — benchmarked for latency, personality, and cozy blanket energy.

• Experiments EXP-002 May 17, 2025 8 min read

  Voice Pipeline 🎤

  Trying to build a local voice-to-voice AI pipeline. Didn't go as planned. But hey — it's working(ish)

• Experiments EXP-001 May 16, 2025 8 min read

  Booting the Brain: First Spark of Local AI Life 🧠💭

  After two weeks of GPU hell, we finally got our first local AI output. Still clunky, but at least the lights are on. And someone's home.