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--- newsletters:2024-04 [2024/05/01 23:08] – osnr
+++ newsletters:2024-04 [2024/05/02 02:07] (current) – Add NYU specifics admin
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 (You can think of this as a replacement for most of the traditional [[https://git.folk.computer/folk/about/|normal manual Folk setup process]] where you install Linux, install a bunch of dependencies, clone Folk, etc.)
-It's in pretty good shape now -- you can flash the image to a USB stick, configure/update the Folk system from a computer (there's a writable FAT32 partition that contains all the Folk stuff that isn't the core Linux OS, so it's easy to update both Folk repo and any custom programs you want to preinstall), plug it into a PC, and the PC should boot right to a working network-connected Folk as long as you configured Wi-Fi and have /dev/video0 and display 0.
+It's in pretty good shape now: you download the .img file, flash it to a USB stick, and configure/update the Folk system on the USB stick from your normal computer. There's a writable FAT32 partition that contains all the Folk stuff that isn't the core Linux OS, so it's easy to update both the Folk repo and any custom programs you want to preinstall:
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+Then you plug the USB stick into the PC that you want to run Folk, and the PC should boot right to a working network-connected Folk as long as you configured Wi-Fi and have /dev/video0 and display 0.
 Some problems I encountered while building the live USB:
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 ==== folk-cnc ====
-Omar: I've been porting [[https://owentrueblood.com|Owen's]] [[https://github.com/jmpinit/projected-toolpath-preview|projected CNC toolpath preview tool]] from last fall to Folk, so you should be able to flash Folk to a live USB, clone folk-cnc onto the live USB, and boot a PC (that's connected to a webcam and projector) right into the CNC preview system.
+Omar: I've been porting [[https://owentrueblood.com|Owen's]] [[https://github.com/jmpinit/projected-toolpath-preview|projected CNC toolpath preview tool]] from last fall to Folk, so you should be able to flash Folk to a live USB, clone folk-cnc onto the live USB, and boot a PC (that's connected to a webcam and projector) right into Folk with the CNC preview application pre-loaded.
-Then (at least for now) you use a Web UI (much like the one in Owen's system) to calibrate the preview to your projector & camera & CNC machine and the material that you want to cut, and you upload a gcode file to preview. Here's the Web UI:
+Then, at least for now, you use a Web frontend much like the one in Owen's system to set up the preview: you calibrate the preview to your projector & camera & CNC machine and the material that you want to cut, and you upload a gcode file to preview. Here's the Web UI:
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 (although it took a bit [[https://social.omar.website/@omar/statuses/01HWBB79447C991Q130YC7FERP|to even get perf to work]] on what should be a bog-standard amd64 Debian system... it [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2019247|wouldn't detect libtraceevent]] to record user events, and I had to recompile it myself)
-Counting perf events immediately paid off, because I figured out that (part of) the reason that folk2 is slow is probably that it does AprilTag detection in an infinite ''while 1'' loop, 100+ times a second, rather than just when the camera frame changes, 30/60x per second:
+Counting perf events immediately paid off, because I figured out from the above that (part of) the reason that folk2 is slow is probably that it does AprilTag detection in an infinite ''while 1'' loop, 100+ times a second, rather than just when the camera frame changes, 30/60x per second.
 and the reason I made the detection process an infinite loop was because the AprilTag detector, like all C objects, was only callable from the thread it was created on. So I decided it was time to do a C refactor I'd been meaning to do for a while, to make the detector callable from any thread, so we can call it from a normal When body that responds to the camera frame (which can get scheduled onto any thread).
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   * Continue to improve new parallel evaluator, especially performance, and port more functionality (text, images, Collect)
   * Maybe revisit RFID
-  * FIXME Andrés ITP show?
+  * Andrés will be showing Folk, specifically OpenCV game experiments, in an NYU ITP Project Fellows art show at [[https://tisch.nyu.edu/clivedavisgallery|The Clive Davis Gallery]] from May 23rd to May 30th.
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