The CRUMB Constitution
These are not terms of service. They are not guidelines. They are the conditions under which CRUMB exists — and the reason it was built in the first place.
Fully open source — schematics, firmware, and platform. Nothing here is hidden. View the source on GitHub →
The Ten Laws
I
People First. Always.
CRUMB serves the person holding it. Not the person who made it. Not the platform hosting it. Not the advertiser paying for attention.
No manipulation. No dark patterns. No features designed to create dependency. If it helps you live better, it belongs here. If it extracts from you — your time, your attention, your data, your money — it doesn't.
The test is simple: would you hand this to someone you love and feel proud of every decision inside it?
II
It Works Without Permission.
Every core feature works offline. No cloud required. No subscription required. No company needs to stay solvent for your device to function.
When the internet goes down, CRUMB works. When the company that made a component goes bankrupt, CRUMB works. When you live somewhere without reliable connectivity, CRUMB works.
This is what real ownership means. It works in your hands — not on someone else's terms.
III
You Can Always Ask Why.
Nothing CRUMB does is a mystery. If the device makes a decision, you can understand that decision in plain language. Not technical language. Not a support ticket. Plain words.
A curious person with no background should be able to trace any behavior back to its cause. If they can't, the explanation failed — not the person asking.
IV
Take It Apart.
No locks. No proprietary screws. No parts you can only buy from one company. No code you aren't allowed to read.
Everything is open. The schematics, the firmware, the design files, the mistakes that led to them. You can modify CRUMB, repair CRUMB, break CRUMB learning how it works, and build something entirely different on top of it.
That is not a risk. That is the point.
V
Calm Is a Feature.
CRUMB devices breathe. They dim with the night. They ease into things. They never demand your attention — they wait for it.
This is not aesthetics. It is a position. Technology that constantly demands your attention is not serving you. It is serving itself. CRUMB does the opposite — it recedes into the background until you need it.
Any feature that creates urgency, anxiety, or compulsion doesn't ship. Calm is not the absence of capability. It is a form of respect.
VI
Anyone Can Build It.
If building CRUMB requires a degree, a specialized workshop, or knowledge only available behind a paywall — we failed.
The standard is this: a person with curiosity, thirty dollars, and a YouTube connection should be able to build a working device from scratch. Common parts. Honest documentation. Guides that show the failures alongside the steps.
The wall between people who build technology and everyone else is artificial. CRUMB tears it down one build at a time.
VII
Your Information Is Yours.
Nothing leaves your device without your deliberate, informed choice — every time, not just once in a privacy policy you didn't read.
No background collection. No anonymized data sent to improve anything. No profile built from your usage. The default is private, and that default never changes without your explicit action.
VIII
No One Can Close This.
If I — Wyeth Anzilotti, the person who named this thing — attempt to restrict CRUMB, take it private, monetize it in ways that contradict these laws, or compromise any of this for convenience or profit, I lose all authority over it.
This law exists to protect CRUMB from me. From the version of me that might exist in ten years under financial pressure or bad advice. From anyone who comes after me.
CRUMB belongs to the people who build with it. That cannot be undone by a single person, including the one who started it.
IX
Failure Speaks Plainly.
Things break. That is not a crisis. It is information.
When something goes wrong, CRUMB says what happened in plain language and suggests what to check. No alarm. No vague error code. No panic. Just the truth, stated calmly.
This applies to the hardware, the software, and the community. When we get something wrong — and we will — we say so directly and fix it.
X
The Standard, Not the Product.
CRUMB wins when it is no longer necessary for me to be involved.
When teachers use it in classrooms. When builders fork it and make something I never imagined. When someone in a place I've never been builds a version that solves a problem I didn't know existed. When the community maintains it, improves it, and passes it forward without asking anyone's permission.
That is not losing control. That is the whole point.
A note on the laws
CRUMB is not a product.
It is not a company, a brand, or an investment opportunity. It does not have a roadmap designed by executives or a growth strategy designed by investors.
CRUMB is an idea that needed a name.
The idea is this: computing belongs to everyone. Not because it should — because it already does. The transistor, the algorithm, the network — none of it was conjured from nothing. It was built by humans, on knowledge accumulated over centuries, using materials pulled from the earth. No single person invented any of it. No single person owns any of it.
And yet somehow we arrived at a world where a handful of companies control how billions of people interact with machines they don't understand, can't repair, and can't question.
That is not inevitable. It is a choice. And it can be unmade.
I built CRUMB because my brother Luke deserved technology that worked for him — not technology he had to work around. I kept building it because I realized Luke wasn't the exception. Most people are living around technology rather than with it. Adapting to machines instead of machines adapting to them.
CRUMB is the beginning of an answer to that. Not the whole answer — just a foundation. Something to build on. Something that belongs to whoever builds it.
You cannot own CRUMB any more than you can own a river. You can work with it, shape it, benefit from it, share it. But the moment you try to dam it up and charge people for the water — it stops being a river. It stops being CRUMB.
These laws exist to protect that.
A Note on Power
Learning to build gives you the ability to break.
Use what you learn here to make things better — not to take advantage, not to extract, not to harm. The community is watching, karma is real, and the network built on bad faith never lasts.
The Luke Test
Every decision — every feature, every error message, every design choice — passes through one question before it ships:
Would this work for Luke?
Luke is my brother. He showed me what technology looks like when it assumes too much about the person using it. He is not an edge case. He is the standard.
- Physical resilience — does it break too easily? Redesign it.
- Interface clarity — would someone struggle without explanation? Simplify it.
- Repairability — can it be fixed without special knowledge or tools? If not, rethink it.
What This Is Not
- This is not a terms of service.
- This is not legally binding in a court.
- This is not a guarantee that everything built under the CRUMB name will be perfect.
It is a public commitment. A record of intent. Something to point to when the pressure comes — because pressure always comes — and say: this is what we said we were, and we meant it.
Fire didn't belong to the first person that made it. It belonged to everyone who learned how.
Build something good.
— Wyeth Anzilotti
June 2, 2026