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| ====== June 2025 newsletter ====== | ====== June 2025 newsletter ====== |
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| TODO: | |
| - [x] Make the Luma for July open house | |
| - [x] Make the Substack | |
| - [x] Schedule the Substack send | |
| - [x] Cull and note Discord links to summarize | |
| - [x] Fill in "What we've been up to" | |
| - [x] Fill in "Demos and applications" (GitHub) | |
| - [ ] Fill in Andrés links | |
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| If you want to stop by the studio, our next Folk open house is **[[https://lu.ma/adpapu2f|in the evening on Thursday, July 31]], in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.** | If you want to stop by the studio, our next Folk open house is **[[https://lu.ma/adpapu2f|in the evening on Thursday, July 31]], in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.** |
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| Another burst is in preparation for our Recurse Center talk (this coming week). We found a bug with camera slices where they flicker (trying to fix now). | Another burst is in preparation for our Recurse Center talk (this coming week). We found a bug with camera slices where they flicker (trying to fix now). Accidentally fried battery system while moving into a new chassis (some short, burned the cable) so bought a new one and that seems to work (it might just have been the USB-C cable, honestly). |
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| ==== folk2 ==== | ==== folk2 ==== |
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| * Group photo: | * Group photo: |
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| * Featuring: [[https://pontus.granstrom.me/|Pontus Granström]], a friend of Pontus,[[https://x.com/varjoshi|Varun Joshi]], Andrés Cuervo, [[https://www.meghna-rao.com/|Meghna Rao]], Omar Rizwan | * Featuring: [[https://pontus.granstrom.me/|Pontus Granström]], a friend of Pontus,[[https://x.com/varjoshi|Varun Joshi]], Andrés Cuervo, [[https://www.meghna-rao.com/|Meghna Rao]], Omar Rizwan |
| * A picture of Verun Joshi's's photo of our GitHub repo so later reference: | * A picture of Varun's photo of our GitHub repo so later reference: |
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| * [[https://www.meghna-rao.com/|Meghna Rao]] turning 1. a photo of an ice cream into a little stop motion art using our animation binder program and 2. using her phone's flashlight to create a spontaneous animation: | * [[https://www.meghna-rao.com/|Meghna Rao]] turning 1. a photo of an ice cream into a little stop motion art using our animation binder program and 2. using her phone's flashlight to create a spontaneous animation: |
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| === Other visitors and interactions === | === Other visitors and interactions === |
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| * [[https://echoforest.xyz/about/|Paul]] and [[https://git.syndicate-lang.org/ehmry/synit/src/commit/02a7b8894675dfe0e58ad4599a282fa2d67edc68|Ehmry]] visited Andrés at the Folk studio. Ehmry is a contributor to Synit — an experimental reactive operating system — and we spent an afternoon going through snippets of Synit's Tcl code live on the table which was a really engaging way to learn about how they're using Tcl for reactive OS operations: | * [[https://echoforest.xyz/about/|Paul]] and [[people:emery|Emery]] visited Andrés at the Folk studio. Ehmry is a contributor to [[notes:Synit]] — an experimental reactive operating system — and we spent an afternoon going through snippets of Synit's Tcl code live on the table which was a really engaging way to learn about how they're using Tcl for reactive OS operations: |
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| * {{newsletters:folk-pointing-at-code-medium.jpeg?400px}} | * {{newsletters:folk-pointing-at-code-medium.jpeg?400px}} |
| * They had the great idea of making a stop motion animation using multiple Folk stickers | * They had the great idea of making a stop motion animation using multiple Folk stickers |
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| * Andrés had their (receipt printer themed) birthday party at Hex House and gave [[https://samismith.com/|Sami Smith]] and [[https://eka.hn/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaf97wA4cf-wJDz0nRWl5oNZ6YKVYRfqoxkDQpa6kM0XVXtyS3cL3x-2g8RMog_aem_NjyXQ32hD0h5Tf2HGYXT7Q|Evan Kahn]] a tour of some shiny new Folk programs in the studio: | * Andrés had their (receipt printer themed) birthday party at Hex House and gave [[https://samismith.com/|Sami Smith]] and [[https://eka.hn/|Evan Kahn]] a tour of some shiny new Folk programs in the studio: |
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| * Justin Liang set up a system at ITP Camp in downtown Brooklyn and ran a workshop teaching people how to use it, which got a lot of excitement -- a couple hundred programs were printed out | * [[https://www.justinliang.me|Justin Liang]] set up a system at ITP Camp in downtown Brooklyn and ran a workshop teaching people how to use it, which got a lot of excitement -- a couple hundred programs were printed out over the lifetime of that system, I think (our friend [[https://violand.xyz/|Viola He]] made some triangle programs) |
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| ===== What we'll be up to in June ===== | ===== What we'll be up to in July ===== |
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| * **Our next Folk open house is [[https://lu.ma/adpapu2f|in the evening on Thursday, July 31]], in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.** | * **Our next Folk open house is [[https://lu.ma/adpapu2f|in the evening on Thursday, July 31]], in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.** |
| * Omar: continue trying to make calibration work well in folk2 | * Omar: continue trying to make calibration work well in folk2 |
| * Omar: try to fix blinking bugs in folk2 | * Omar: try to fix blinking bugs in folk2 |
| * Andrés: TBD | * Andrés: Video, video, video |
| | * Andrés: Planning **[[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdxSlV9YxGZO2pa0qwB5GeeOkt_1RB32drwMbXjnHUeS_-TJA/viewform?usp=dialog |workshops]]** |
| | * Andrés: Kosmik integration |
| | * Omar and Andrés giving [[https://lu.ma/sxqm12i0|a talk about the Folk gadget at Recurse Center]] on July 7 (currently sold out, though) |
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| ===== Links we've enjoyed ===== | ===== Links we've enjoyed ===== |
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| ==== Andrés ==== | ==== Andrés ==== |
| * | * Blair Neal's new art experiment [[https://ablairneal.com/project/forgetting-light|Forgetting Light - (Photochromic canvas + laser projector) |
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| | * [[https://github.com/seeddisperser/kelmscott-mono|Kelmscott Mono]] - A blackletter typeface for your text editor (I've been using it as mine this month, it's a wild but fun experience.) |
| | * [[https://willowprotocol.org|Willow]] — "Protocols for synchronisable data stores." |
| | * [[https://github.com/Samsung/Tizen.NET]] — the obscure .NET framework for making Samsung TV apps |
| | * [[https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLpcOEhRnxd/?igsh=bW5uOGJwZnBybTd6|Making holographic butter]] using diffraction grating |
| | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuxBfKA3U5M&t=53s|A beginner's guide to ESP32]] |
| | * The [[https://lilygo.cc/products/t-encoder-pro-us|LILYGO T-Encoder Pro]] — An ESP32 powered rotary encoder with a fascinating little circular display |
| | * [[https://toitlang.org|Toit]] is a modern high-level language designed specifically for microcontrollers |
