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🎥 Watch the talk online:
youtu.be/hrXEtG3JILo?si=YW5i…
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Thank you to everyone who came to our last Localhost talk with @cwervo and @rsnous!
They presented on @FolkComputer and unveiled the Folk Gadget! Together we escaped the screen and entered the realm of light and paper-based computing.
📽️📄🌀
Watch the recording below:⬇️
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Made a precision D6 @FolkComputer
It's kinda like a knob, but also a die, so you can roll any number between 0 - 6, like 4.31 or 2.76!
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We're announcing our first two speakers, as well as opening up a call for presentations.
Andres Cuervo @cwervo from @FolkComputer and Lu Wilson @TodePond from @tldraw will be joining us for Causal Islands Berlin, Oct 4th & 5th.
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i like how phone vibrate makes different weird sounds depending on what the phone is touching/sitting on, feels like a rare interaction between computer and the physical environment
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It turns out that the gadget text rendering is garbled because the Raspberry Pi GPU Vulkan driver (v3dv) does not support dynamic indexing into an array of descriptors, the index just always gets sent to 0 with no warning
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They keep on forking my hands!
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once you experience @FolkComputer you’ll never stop thinking about malleable interfaces
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Some alums building great indie stuff outside typical jobs:
@b0rk writing zines
@itseieio designing wacky games
@rsnous & @cwervo making @FolkComputer
@heyvrk creating software that ♡'s paper
@saulfp making @VisiData
@FiloSottile maintaining OSS
Andrew Kelley building @ziglang
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idea: computer which has a port bitmap instead of port numbers; programs can color in (bind) specific pixel regions of the port bitmap
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Continuing this chain of thought … what if physical objects were programmable? @FolkComputer already allows digital → physical, what if you could use computer vision to enable physical → digital?
e.g.
- teach the computer to do highlighting to find physical notes? ⌘ + F IRL
image if you had a stack of like 100 cheap IR-ink printed "blank pages", maybe on card stock so they don't get mixed up, and you could assign arbitrary dynamic media to each one
okay, okay, now imagine they react to their physical environment! and that you can program them :)

ALT an illustration of a pile of IR-printed cards, there's a single card labelled "A", on it is written "Spaced Repetition". When it's placed in the board on the right using binder clips it returns results from a Notion database related to spaced repetition. When placed in a folder titled "Wikipedia Search Folder" you get a preview of the Wikipedia info
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works well out of the box! satisfying porting more & more complex shaders into @FolkComputer :)
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Kids can tell an interactive story and learn about programming right in their living rooms with @FolkComputer.
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yay spatial font tools :)
thinking about more ways to mess with text in @FolkComputer
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I've written a in-depth (gif + code) walkthrough of my "tableshot" experiments with @FolkComputer. Hopefully it illustrates what makes Folk unique and encourages you to set up your own!
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