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| ====== January 2026 newsletter ====== | ====== January 2026 newsletter ====== |
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| Our next [[https://luma.com/ptzbza54|Folk open house is in the evening on Thursday, February 26th, in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.]] | {{htmlmetatags>metatag-og:title=(Folk Computer January 2026 newsletter) |
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| | metatag-og:description=(Receipt printer & camera fixes; dual-tag quads experiment; China trip; shape library work; TrOCR handwriting experiment; new intro booklet) |
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| | Our next Folk open house will be on the evening on Thursday, February 26th, in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. RSVP here: |
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| | [[{}https://luma.com/ptzbza54|RSVP for the Folk open house on Feb 26]] |
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| | Last month, we officially [[newsletters/2025-12#nonprofit-501-c-3|formed a nonprofit for Folk.]] We’re trying to get more serious about fundraising — we'd love for you to sponsor us so we can keep doing this work: |
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| | [[{}https://github.com/sponsors/FolkComputer|**Sponsor Folk on GitHub Sponsors**]] |
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| ===== What we've been up to ===== | ===== What we've been up to ===== |
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| * [[https://danielpipk.in|Daniel Pipkin]] [[https://github.com/FolkComputer/folk/commit/8551cff340862ded01e57ec6e67d790294f5e823|fixed our ESC/POS receipt printer support for folk2]]: now it uses fn and Subscribe:/Notify: instead of globals | * [[https://danielpipk.in|Daniel Pipkin]] and [[https://github.com/smj-edison|Mason Jones]] paired in person in Utah on dual-tag-derived quads that work in 3D: |
| | * {{newsletters:pxl_20260103_231220991.mp4?200px}} {{newsletters:pxl_20260103_231501474.mp4?200px}} |
| | * Omar: sort of a modernized version of the dual-tags that [[https://x.com/naveenma|Naveen Michaud-Agrawal]] [[newsletters/2023-10#what-we-ve-been-up-to|had a couple of years ago in 2D]] |
| | * Daniel [[https://github.com/FolkComputer/folk/commit/8551cff340862ded01e57ec6e67d790294f5e823|fixed our ESC/POS receipt printer support for folk2]]: now it uses fn and Subscribe:/Notify: instead of globals |
| * [[https://github.com/sorig|Esben Sørig]] contributed some camera/setup fixes: | * [[https://github.com/sorig|Esben Sørig]] contributed some camera/setup fixes: |
| * [[https://github.com/FolkComputer/folk/pull/241|Extend camera load timeout to 2 seconds and add retry mechanism]], which seems to fix the Logitech C270 camera | * [[https://github.com/FolkComputer/folk/pull/241|Extend camera load timeout to 2 seconds and add retry mechanism]], which seems to fix the Logitech C270 camera |