https://folk.computer/ 2026-06-04T04:17:03+00:00 https://folk.computer/ https://folk.computer/_media/logo.png text/html 2023-12-02T14:31:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/guides/ble-serial?rev=1701527519&do=diff The following are instructions for connecting a Bluetooth device for serial communication using BlueZ 5.31. (adapted from <https://gist.github.com/0/c73e2557d875446b9603>) Prerequisites The following packages are required: * `bluez`: `bluetoothd` * `bluez-utils`: `bluetoothctl`, `rfcomm` Pair text/html 2025-12-15T00:05:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/guides/bluetooth?rev=1765757147&do=diff Connect keyboards to Folk via Bluetooth Connecting a new Bluetooth keyboard * Follow the entire Pairing process of this guide from the Arch Linux wiki. * There have been issues before with the Intel Bluetooth controllers that come in some of the Beelink computers. If the troubleshooting in the Arch Linux wiki link above doesn't work, try these two commands: text/html 2025-12-12T04:06:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/guides/button-guide?rev=1765512387&do=diff Let's make a button! We'll start with the printable template and then make a Folk program that we want to turn into a button. Let's cut and fold the button Let's cut and fold up the button like so: 1. Cut out one of the quadrants. 2. Starting at one end of the paper, fold the first solid black line into a valley fold (like a text/html 2023-10-05T19:19:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/guides/button?rev=1696533572&do=diff Let's make a button! We'll start with the printable template and then make a Folk program that we want to turn into a button. 0. The printable template This template makes 4 buttons on a standard 8.5“ x 11” piece of paper. Print it out, ideally on a piece of card stock (we like text/html 2023-10-10T23:54:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/guides/createafont?rev=1696982079&do=diff Bake A Custom SDF Font! So, you want to make a custom font atlas for the Vulkan renderer! Here's my artisanal recipe, passed down through generations. Ingredients * The msdf-atlas-gen source code You'll need to clone this recursively, so you get the submodules: text/html 2026-03-22T22:56:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/guides/example-programs?rev=1774220178&do=diff Example programs Camera slice When $this has camera slice /slice/ { Wish $this displays camera slice $slice } Points up When $this points up at /target/ { Wish $target is labelled "being pointed at" } text/html 2023-10-14T03:10:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/guides/finding-code?rev=1697253029&do=diff Finding code in Folk We're working on documentation. Until then: Grep around the code base * Command + F in folk0.local:4273 (especially the Running programs section) * Look in virtual-programs and pi text/html 2025-08-11T21:04:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/guides/fractal-setup?rev=1754946263&do=diff Fractal Set-up * Luma Link * Hardware Set up * Software Set up * Gadget for reference Pitfalls * Printer problem - “I still have the printer problem where I can print the test page but not set printer as server default” * Deleted test printer to make default to printer * Calibration - Overexposure/Apriltag cut off text/html 2025-12-26T14:18:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/guides/gpu?rev=1766758681&do=diff GPU FFI The new 'GPU FFI' lets you write vertex and fragment shaders to draw things. Here is a very basic shader that you can just paste as a virtual program (or print). It will color a triangle underneath itself green-blue. Wish the GPU compiles pipeline "$this's triangle" { {vec2 p0 vec2 p1 vec2 p2} { vec2 vertices[4] = vec2[4](p0, p1, p2, p0); return vertices[gl_VertexIndex]; } { return vec4(0, 0.1, 0.1, 1); } } Wish $this is outlined blue When $this h… text/html 2023-10-17T15:56:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/guides/hardware?rev=1697558216&do=diff Building a new Folk installation from scratch? You'll need some ingredients: TODO: Make a matrix for small, medium, and large/sunlit installations (in which case you'll want the Epson 1080p & a beefy Beelink). In all cases, base OS is Ubuntu Server 23.10, though point out it can be Virtual Machine hosted with QEMU. Save the QEMU process in a new page ( text/html 2024-01-31T18:06:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/guides/keyboard?rev=1706724413&do=diff Connecting a keyboard In order to set up your keyboard for use in Folk you need to create a keyboard claim like this (taken from the folk0 instance): Claim $this is a keyboard with path /dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-0-event-kbd This page will walk you through creating your own keyboard claim for use in Folk. text/html 2023-10-25T13:38:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/guides/mounting?rev=1698241118&do=diff Mounting - film-quality tripod NYU system: * Produces a relatively bright image in a dim room (no direct sunlight): * Example program: CNC @ Hex House (folk-convivial) system: * Using a tripod (linked above) * Using an <https://epson.com/For-Home/Projectors/Home-Cinema/Home-Cinema-1080-3LCD-1080p-Projector/p/V11H980020> projector. This maximizes brightness by trading-off compactness and resolution with our usual recommendation (the AAXA 4K1, which is out-of-production now as … text/html 2024-02-02T04:22:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/guides/opencv?rev=1706847776&do=diff Original Author: Jacob Haip. Contributions welcome! Instructions for integrating OpenCV with Folk. This guide involves a manual compilation set outside of folk, but the creation of the wrapper files and the compilation (via an TCL “exec” call) could also be moved within a folk program to completely encapsulate the code. text/html 2025-10-08T00:40:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/guides/printer?rev=1759884056&do=diff Printer Support First we need to download CUPS. CUPS is the print management system that lets your computer talk to printers — whether they’re plugged in via USB or connected over a network. On the tabletop: sudo apt update sudo apt install cups cups-bsd sudo usermod -a -G lpadmin folk text/html 2023-10-25T21:40:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/guides/ssh-multipl-folk-nodes?rev=1698270002&do=diff SSH'ing into multiple Folk nodes If you have multiple Folk nodes on the same WiFi network and you want to SSH into Setting a Bash Variable You can set a Bash variable called FOLK_SHARE_NODE to the string folk-convivial in several ways: Temporary (Within Current Session) text/html 2024-01-14T20:25:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/guides/udev-rule?rev=1705263929&do=diff udev rules Folk practices assume you have a keyboard in /dev/input/by-path/. Bluetooth keyboards may not get put there automatically. Lucky for us, we can create a rule to tell the system to put your keyboard there when connected. " This guide assumes you have successfully connected a keyboard following text/html 2025-05-27T22:09:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/guides/what-folk-can-do?rev=1748383746&do=diff What Folk can do Creative environments * Jessie Grosen made a SuperCollider-based audio system using Folk. Here, she's pulling out an audio track, using 'hands' to carve subsections out of the track, then operating on those subsections: * * (— from the July 2024 newsletter) *