https://folk.computer/ 2026-07-21T15:24:43+00:00 https://folk.computer/ https://folk.computer/_media/logo.png text/html 2024-12-31T22:24:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/newsletters/2024-12?rev=1735683895&do=diff December 2024 newsletter Thanks for following along so far! We've been working on a lot of big projects in 2024 -- many still under way (parallel evaluator, gadget design, RFID tag localization, video playback) -- but we've gotten a decent amount done this year: text/html 2026-07-18T13:30:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/newsletters/2026-06?rev=1784381435&do=diff June 2026 newsletter Our next Folk open house will be in the evening on Wednesday, July 29, at our studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Also: Daniel Pipkin and Mason Jones will be exhibiting Folk at Craft Lake City's DIY Festival August 7-9 in Salt Lake City. What we've been up to General system improvements * Audrey Gu improved the language reference / README documentation (Bluetooth keyboards, text/html 2024-12-01T04:09:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/newsletters/2024-11?rev=1733026182&do=diff November 2024 newsletter (Our next Folk open house is at noon on Sunday, December 15, at our studio in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.) What we've been up to Small system improvements * Andrés added: * Print notice when you hit Print, both on web and tabletop editor * text/html 2025-03-31T12:18:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/newsletters/2025-02?rev=1743423484&do=diff February 2025 newsletter * Andrés’s talk from October of last year, at Causal Islands in Berlin, is now up on YouTube: * Omar has been promising people a Folk links/related-work/bibliography page and finally started on it * Our next Folk open house is in the evening on Wednesday, March 26, at our studio in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. text/html 2025-02-03T03:46:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/newsletters/2025-01?rev=1738554371&do=diff January 2025 newsletter What we've been up to General Folk system improvements * Andrés and Mason Jones improved calibration instructions: clarified wording to be more explicit about lifting the board above the table and added an example video of calibration; a lot of people have been really confused by calibration and have reported that it doesn't work (when actually they aren't calibrating it right; usually they're only training on the table plane so it's degenerate), so we've been meanin… text/html 2025-04-01T20:40:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/newsletters/2025-03?rev=1743540031&do=diff March 2025 newsletter (Our next Folk open house is in the evening on Sunday, April 27, at our studio in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Come by!) What we've been up to Demos and applications * (Andrés) Animation binder * I took the animation programs that Cristóbal Sciutto made and put them in a binder, added a binder clip for stacks of paper, and added a wheel for people to adjust the number of frames text/html 2025-05-01T01:57:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/newsletters/2025-04?rev=1746064653&do=diff April 2025 newsletter We've had a funding shortfall recently -- we'd really appreciate it if you sponsor Folk on GitHub Sponsors if you can, so that we can keep doing this free and open work :-) We’ll be setting up at Rhizome World this Sunday, May 4 (at 161 Water Street in the Financial District). Feel free to say hello; we’ll also be running text/html 2025-10-02T23:06:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/newsletters/2025-09?rev=1759446372&do=diff September 2025 newsletter If you'd like to see the latest (much more responsive) folk2 and gadget in person, our next Folk open house is in the evening on Thursday, October 30, in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. What we've been up to Internals notes Mason Jones has been writing overview notes on the internals of the new parallel folk2 evaluator (a lot of it applies to folk1 also): text/html 2025-11-06T21:33:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/newsletters/2025-10?rev=1762464783&do=diff October 2025 newsletter If you'd like to see the latest (much more responsive) folk2 and gadget in person, our next Folk open house is in the evening on Monday, November 24th, in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. What we've been up to * Andrés has been helping Brian write and add default programs for an introductory booklet to make it easy for new users of Folk systems to get oriented to the language text/html 2026-04-23T01:39:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://folk.computer/newsletters/2026-03?rev=1776908367&do=diff March 2026 newsletter Our next Folk open house will be on next Monday, April 27, in our new studio (not Hex House) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. RSVP here: toq7zpc7 We're a nonprofit doing unique open-source research on physical computing and programming -- we'd appreciate it if you sponsored us on GitHub: