Lumbre: An Ofrenda That Never Leaves Your Laptop

Description and use

Lumbre is a local‑first ofrenda builder that uses a locally hosted Gemma3 model to generate personalized remembrances, keeping all data offline and private.

Problem

Families want a private, offline way to remember loved ones without sending personal stories to the cloud.

Outcome

Lumbre provides a privacy‑preserving, offline solution for creating and recalling personalized remembrances, keeping all data on the user’s machine.

Workflow

• Install Ollama and pull Gemma3
• Run python3 server.py
• Open http://localhost:8765 in a browser
• Add memories (foods, songs, stories) through the UI
• Save the ofrenda
• Ask the model for a remembrance or a specific question
• Listen to the spoken output via browser speech synthesis

Evidence

Lumbre is a local‑first ofrenda builder. You tell it who you are remembering, then add the foods, songs, stories and sayings that made them them. Each memory lights a candle on the altar.

Source

The whole thing runs on your own machine: a small Python server, one HTML page, and Gemma running through Ollama. No account, no cloud, no API key.

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The server has three jobs: save the ofrenda, ask the model for a remembrance from the saved notes, and answer a question from the saved notes. Every model call gets the same grounding instruction.

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With a local model, nothing leaves localhost.

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