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-====== What Folk Can Do ======
+====== What Folk can do ======
-===== Teach kids computing =====
+===== Creative environments =====
-   * [[https://vedranb.com|Vedran Budimcic]] has been building a Scratch-like environment in Folk. This month, he added support for multiple characters:
+  * [[https://types.pl/@jmgrosen|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:
+    * {{newsletters:initial_demo.mp4}}
+    * //(— [[newsletters/2024-07|from the July 2024 newsletter]])//
+  * [[https://ijc8.me|Ian Clester]] sound env
+    * {{youtube>9Jik_CfcaGA?}}
+===== Kids and computing =====
+  * [[https://vedranb.com|Vedran Budimcic]] has been building a Scratch-like environment in Folk. This month, he added support for multiple characters:
     * {{youtube>jMWUznFL_zY?}}
     * Vedran: I think I only need to do a few more things before I can let me kids try to break it: 1. Put the cards on something thicker like cardboard. Easier for little hands. Maybe laminate as well. 2. Consider character actions from left to right instead of order of appearance. Right now it only considers the actions on the right of the "play" pages, but doesn't consider their order.
-      * //(— [[https://folk.computer/newsletters/2024-05|from the May 2024 newsletter]])//
+    * //(— [[newsletters/2024-05|from the May 2024 newsletter]])//
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+  * Vedran also set up a Folk system on a toy train track. The train has a Folk tag on it, so the system knows its location, so it can play sounds as the train passes through different areas on the track:
+    * {{youtube>GittrVOLLr4?}}
+    * Omar: I like the three-dimensionality and materiality of this. It's no longer flat pieces of paper on a plane; it's a train on a real track with landmarks.
+    * //(— [[newsletters/2024-02|from the February 2024 newsletter]])//
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     * See also [[https://arcades.agency|Arcade Wise]]'s [[folkarc:orbitalkit|ORBITALKIT]]
     * (see [[#rob-s-test|below]] for more comments on folk2)
-      * //(— [[https://folk.computer/newsletters/2025-02|from the February 2025 newsletter]])//
+    * //(— [[newsletters/2025-02|from the February 2025 newsletter]])//
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-    * [[https://haiperspace.com|Jacob Haip]] has been doing microcontroller integrations with Folk, so you can press a physical button or slide a real slider or light up real LEDs: he wrote a great [[notes:mqtt|note about these integrations and his use of the MQTT protocol]]
+  * [[https://haiperspace.com|Jacob Haip]] has been doing microcontroller integrations with Folk, so you can press a physical button or slide a real slider or light up real LEDs: he wrote a great [[notes:mqtt|note about these integrations and his use of the MQTT protocol]]
-    * Omar: I really liked this example of 4 buttons that can play different songs on Spotify:
+    * Omar: I really liked this example of 4 buttons that play different songs on Spotify:
       * {{notes:button-kid-press.jpeg?300px}}
       * More specific and approachable and fun physical interface than pages, little kid can play with it like a normal toy, but Folk makes it easy to 'rewire' and get into reprogramming (and to cross with other sensors and actuators in novel ways) because it's all Folk programs in the backend:
         * {{:newsletters:pasted:20240430-200353.png?500px}}
-      * //(— [[https://folk.computer/newsletters/2024-04|from the April 2024 newsletter]])//
+    * //(— [[newsletters/2024-04|from the April 2024 newsletter]])//
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   * [[https://github.com/smj-edison|Mason Jones]] has started working on a linear algebra tutorial:
     * {{newsletters:pxl_20250213_230719945.jpg?400px}}
-      * (— [[https://folk.computer/newsletters/2025-02|from the February 2025 newsletter]])
+      * (— [[newsletters/2025-02|from the February 2025 newsletter]])
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     * You can put these programs together and vary the programs slightly to create booklets:
       * {{newsletters:refreshed_bouncing_letter_booklet.gif}}
-    * Or [[https://folk.computer/guides/button|use paper craft]] to make any program into a button:
+    * Or [[guides/button|use paper craft]] to make any program into a button:
       * {{guides:button_concentric_circles.gif}}
       * {{guides:button_computer.gif}}
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       * Or that explore stop motion animation:
         * {{newsletters:folk-anim-tinnei.gif}}