====== August 2026 newsletter (WIP) ======

TODO

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Our next Folk open house will be in the evening on **[[TODO|TODO ?day, September ??]]**, at our studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

===== What we've been up to =====

==== Demos ====

  * TODO

==== Studio cleanup ====
TODO
==== General system improvements ====
TODO
  * Fixed hold write concurrency bug

==== Object tracking ====

SAM2 switched from same-side arc contour to opposite-side arc contour


==== RFID localization ====

Omar: A lot of the work this month was trying to align in-band with out-of-band signals so we can localize.

Here's a successful alignment:

TODO

Here's an unsuccessful alignment:

TODO
==== Outreach ====

  * TODO

=== Visitors ===

  * JP Posma, Louis Potok, Han Seoul-Oh

=== Open house ===

  * Open houses increasingly
  * TODO: Images

===== What we'll be up to in September =====
  
  
  * Our next [[TODO|Folk open house will be on Wednesday, September ??]], at our studio in Williamsburg.
  * Andrés: TODO
  * Omar: TODO

===== Links we've enjoyed =====

==== Andrés ====
  * TODO
==== Omar ====
  * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blokus
  * https://research.swtch.com/pcdata
  * https://without.boats/blog/coroutines-and-effects/
  * https://www.publicbooks.org/every-novel-is-boring-until-it-isnt/
  * https://old.reddit.com/r/computervision/comments/1rh05j4/how_much_of_a_pain_is_procam_projectorcamera/
  * https://gitlab.com/kriwkrow/lighthouse-stylus
  * https://github.com/NVlabs/Fast-FoundationStereo
  * https://www.flong.com/archive/projects/free-universal-construction-kit/index.html
  * https://30fps.net/pages/videogame-shadows/
  * https://gwern.net/review/movie#rams