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--- newsletters:2025-07 [2025/08/08 00:35] – Add folk cambridge cwervo
+++ newsletters:2025-07 [2025/08/09 07:02] (current) – [A new system: folk-cambridge] osnr
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 ====== July 2025 newsletter ======
-If you want to stop by the studio, **our next Folk open house is [[https://lu.ma/di1bel4a|in the afternoon on Saturday, August 30]], in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.**
+This past month, we gave a talk about the Folk gadget as part of [[https://www.recurse.com/events/localhost-omar-andres-folk-computer|Recurse Center's Localhost series]] ([[#recurse-center-localhost-talk|more information below]]):
-This month, we gave a talk about the Folk gadget as part of [[https://www.recurse.com/events/localhost-omar-andres-folk-computer|Recurse Center's Localhost series]] ([[#recurse-center-localhost-talk|more information below]]):
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+(If you want to see the latest gadget yourself, **our next Folk open house is [[https://lu.ma/di1bel4a|in the afternoon on Saturday, August 30]], in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.**)
 ==== Workshop interest form ====
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 ==== Demos and applications ====
-  * [[TODO|Rob Fielding]] has been working on:
+  * [[https://x.com/_rpf|Rob Fielding]] has been working on:
     * (July 6th) A Folk implementation of a vim-like editor:
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-  * [[TODO wiki profile page | Mason Jones]] dove deep into matrix math with [[https://gist.github.com/smj-edison/75be61bbe6bafba027392b3b65ac4846 |this centroid calculation program]]
+  * [[https://github.com/smj-edison| Mason Jones]] dove deep into matrix math with [[https://gist.github.com/smj-edison/75be61bbe6bafba027392b3b65ac4846 |this centroid calculation program]]
-  * (TODO link) Calbavore, Mason, & Daniel has a good discussion about calibration (seeing these discussions between folk’s early users has been helping for figuring out what tacit knowledge to solidify in a future tutorial or onboarding experience.
+  * calvbore, Mason, & Daniel has a good discussion about calibration (seeing these discussions between folk’s early users has been helping for figuring out what tacit knowledge to solidify in a future tutorial or onboarding experience)
     * [[Discord discussion on where to place calibration board|{{newsletters:img_0212.jpeg?400px}}]]
 === A new system: folk-cambridge ===
-  * Hamish Todd (TODO: link) set up ''folk-cambridge'' in his house:
+[[https://hamishtodd1.github.io/|Hamish Todd]] set up ''folk-cambridge'' in his house:
-    * [[Discord image with the text: “ I still don't have my webcam so I am jumping the gun to show these 😃 it arrives on the 23rd. Still, I'm proud of this! This took a heck of a lot of help and encouragement from my wife 😁
+{{newsletters:img_20250713_180748367_hdr.jpg?0x300px}} {{newsletters:img_20250713_180834483.jpg?0x300px}}
-Mini PC: Beelink SER8, Ryzen 7 8845HS.
+> Mini PC: Beelink SER8, Ryzen 7 8845HS.
+>
+> Projector: LG cinebeam set up (upside down though, which I'll correct when the webcam arrives!). The lack of screw holes on it is really annoying, our current solution involves two carabiners and a hairband. But the projection on the whiteboard looks gooooood 🤤
+>
+> Motivation: my primary work is mathematics, which for years I've done by alternating between two my notebook and my computer. In both I work both symbolically and pictorally, and that means completely different things in both. I want to make it all easier!”|{{newsletters:folk-cambridge.png}}]]
-Projector: LG cinebeam set up (upside down though, which I'll correct when the webcam arrives!). The lack of screw holes on it is really annoying, our current solution involves two carabiners and a hairband. But the projection on the whiteboard looks gooooood 🤤
+=== A proposal for a new system ===
-Motivation: my primary work is mathematics, which for years I've done by alternating between two my notebook and my computer. In both I work both symbolically and pictorally, and that means completely different things in both. I want to make it all easier!”|{{newsletters:folk-cambridge.png}}]]
+  * Matt (King Thew in our Discord): "A few years ago, our institution created an 'Innovation and Research' department inside Information Technology (where our eLearning team is also housed). In my opinion, I'm not sure it's really that innovative in its current form—it's exploring some projects with XR, but otherwise it spends a lot of time evaluating new products being marketed to higher education (e.g. what's the newest projector on the market). I'm hoping to convince them to build a Folk setup and to see where we can take it."
 ==== folk2 (parallel Folk evaluator) ====
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 === Recurse Center Localhost talk ===
-  * Localhost:
+As mentioned at the top, we gave a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrXEtG3JILo|talk about the Folk gadget]] as part of [[https://www.recurse.com/events/localhost-omar-andres-folk-computer|Recurse Center's Localhost series]].
-    * TODO: add pictures, downloaded on Andrés laptop
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+{{:newsletters:pasted:20250808-170021.png?0x300px}} {{newsletters:img_2526.jpeg?0x300px}}
 We also had some fun prepping the week before -- our friend [[https://violand.xyz/about|Viola He]] joined:
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   * [[https://arbesman.net|Sam Arbesman]] was in town and stopped by for an afternoon -- talked about research and about how Folk fits into the larger landscape of new computing projects and computing research history:
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-  * TODO
 ===== What we'll be up to in August =====
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     * try to get folk2 merged: fix bugs, esp. blinking & camera-slice crash, port functionality, improve perf further
     * more gadget refinement: stabilize projector position/bolt, improve calibration, work with Daniel to improve instructions
-  * Andrés: TODO
+  * Andrés: Video, video, video
 ===== Links we've enjoyed =====
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 ==== Andrés ====
-  * TODO
+  * [[https://hackaday.com/tag/scanner/|3D-Printed Scanner Automates Deck Management For Trading Card Gamers]]
-  *
+  * [[https://srl.mcgill.ca/publications/2007-PROCAMS.pdf|A paper from 2007 I was thinking about that uses two projectors to remove shadows]]
+==== From the community ====
+  * Mason: [[https://acko.net/blog/i-is-for-intent/| I is for Intent | "Why your app turned into spaghetti]]
+  * Mason: [[https://acko.net/blog/mathbox2/|MathBox²  PowerPoint Must Die]]