Localhost July 2025

Omar and Andrés were invited to speak at Localhost at Recurse Center on Monday, July 7th, 2025. Below are some assets they used for their talk.

• Early photos of the gadget:
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• The Red iPhone Era
  • Standalone pic of the earliest version of the gadget made with a plastic toy from Omar's childhood home, a battery pack, a Raspberry Pi, and a Nebra Anybeam projector::
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  • Various friends trying out this early version of the gadget:
    • Michael Akilian projecting videos on random things in our shared studio space Hex House:
    • Kit Volta trying out various interactions:
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    • Projecting onto Norm O'Hagan:
    • Kawandeep Virdee using the early gadget to project some web experiments:
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  • Projecting the iPhone screen into diffraction grating:
• The gadget ambiently displaying “Hello! ” on Omar:
• Malleable Computing Party:
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• Omar programming an early version of the gadget:
• Demoing the gadget with Kelin Zhang:
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  • Demonstrating the focus-free-ness of the new gadgets:
• Gadget as a lamp:
• Face drawn on a gadget (safely on tape) by our friend Celine Park
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• Gadgets demos while prepping for the Causal Island talk:
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  • Testing out programing on the gadget via the web interface:
• Two gadgets in the Folk studio:
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• lamp enclosure
• point-and-drag
• escape room