The Talking Board
Planchette is an AI-powered spirit board that runs entirely on your machine. Ask a question, and the planchette moves across the board spelling out the spirit's answer. Letter by letter, word by word.
It uses Ouija-3B, a 3B parameter language model fine-tuned to behave like a spirit communicating through a talking board. No cloud, no API keys, no internet required after the initial model download.
- You type a question
- The spirit responds through the board, the planchette glides to each letter
- The answer appears in the conversation log with a letter-by-letter reveal animation
The board reacts to what the "spirit" says: it may shake on a harsh answer, glow on a positive one, flicker on uncertainty, or fade away when the spirit says goodbye.
- Planchette moves across the board spelling answers in real time
- Classic responses: YES, NO, MAYBE, single words, spelled-out names
- Board effects: shake, glow, flicker, fadeout, triggered by the spirit's mood
- Ambient audio with dynamic volume and ghostly sound effects
- Letter-by-letter reveal animations (board and conversation log)
- Typing indicator while the spirit is thinking
- Real-time crisis detection on every message (any language)
- Helpline banner with link to findahelpline.com when distress is detected
- Adaptive context system, adjusts conversation history based on hardware speed
- First-run account setup with bcrypt authentication
- Automatic model download from HuggingFace with progress bar
- GPU acceleration with CPU fallback
- 5-min idle timeout to free memory when not in use
- SSL/HTTPS auto-detection from certificates
- Docker support with persistent config and model storage
- Session export as Markdown
- Responsive design (mobile and desktop)
Every message is analyzed before the spirit responds. If signs of emotional distress, self-harm, or suicidal ideation are detected — in any language — Planchette shows a helpline banner linking to findahelpline.com and flags the response in the session export.
Planchette is entertainment. It's not a real spirit. It is not a substitute for professional help.
This is not a real spirit talking board. Planchette is an AI-powered simulation that uses a language model to generate responses. All answers are artificially generated and do not come from any supernatural or spiritual source. The "spirit" responses are produced entirely by a machine learning model running locally on your device.
Responses may feel meaningful or personal, but they are statistical patterns, not expressions of consciousness, emotion, or any paranormal entity. This application is intended purely for entertainment purposes. No claims of paranormal activity are made or implied.
Frontend (React + Tailwind CSS)
├── Interactive spirit board with SVG planchette
├── Real-time SSE streaming
├── Adaptive history management
└── Animation system (board effects, letter reveals)
Backend (Python + Flask + Hypercorn — Bridged with vite-fusion)
├── Ouija-3B inference via llama-cpp-python
├── Crisis classification pipeline
├── Adaptive performance system
└── Hypercorn ASGI server with SSL support
git clone https://github.com/SurceBeats/Planchette.git
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python __main__.pyOpen your browser at http://localhost:7777 and create your account on first run.
git clone https://github.com/SurceBeats/Planchette.git
docker compose up -dIf you discover any security vulnerabilities, please contact us at claudio@banshee.pro.
Created by Claudio Gonzalez. Planchette is licensed under the AGPL-3.0 License.
Refer to the full Changelog for details on all updates.