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--- newsletters:2023-12 [2023/12/30 21:19] – [Other stuff] osnr
+++ newsletters:2023-12 [2023/12/30 23:20] (current) – [What we'll be up to in January] osnr
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   * Andrés made a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooke%27s_law|Hooke's law]] spring simulation in Folk:
     * {{newsletters:simulation.gif?0x300}}
-    * Andrés and Charles collaborated on a Folk program that extends this to a ball that bounces around the table
+    * Andrés and Charles collaborated on a Folk program that extends this to a ball that bounces around the table.
   * During the open house, a visitor asked Cristóbal if he could change the frame rate of his animation tool. It works splendidly:
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 ==== Tabletop / in-system editor ====
-  * Andrés has continued work on the editor. There's now a save hotkey (''Ctrl + S''), separate regions for editing and previewing your program and key repeat now works. There's a couple more keyboard I/O management bugs Andrés is currently working through but they'll all be
+  * Andrés has continued work on the in-system editor. There's now a save hotkey (''Ctrl + S''), separate regions for editing and previewing your program, and support for repeated key presses. There are a couple keyboard I/O management bugs Andrés is currently working through that will be addressed in January. Once those are ironed out the keyboard will be merged into the core Folk project and will be useful for teaching others how to make Folk programs without a laptop (think casual visits or multi-person workshops), editing the Folk system using Folk itself, and handling keyboard input in other Folk programs.
     * {{newsletters:charles_keyboard-medium.jpeg}}
+    * Charles visited the studio this month and gave Andrés some great ideas for the editor for future releases.
 ==== Calibration ====
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     * improving the RFID error recovery / state machine; starting on sync and OOB
     * calibration accuracy improvement, some of this can be done on laptop from cached data/poses
-    * maybe hacking on a parallel Folk?
+    * maybe hacking on pure evaluator/Tcl/C stuff? a parallel Folk? variables/Observe?
   * Finishing up the tabletop editor and getting it merged, then follow-up to make virtual programs table-editable, other niceties like that to minimize laptop dependency