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--- newsletters:2025-07 [2025/08/09 03:52] – [A new system: folk-cambridge] osnr
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 === A new system: folk-cambridge ===
-  * [[https://hamishtodd1.github.io/|Hamish Todd]] 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 😁]]
-=== A proposal for a new system ===
+{{newsletters:img_20250713_180748367_hdr.jpg?0x300px}} {{newsletters:img_20250713_180834483.jpg?0x300px}}
-  * 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.
-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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 ==== Andrés ====
   * [[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 think about that uses two projectors to remove shadows
+  * [[https://srl.mcgill.ca/publications/2007-PROCAMS.pdf|A paper from 2007 I was thinking about that uses two projectors to remove shadows]]