Folk Computer

Interested in setting up your own Folk Computer instance? Fill out this form and we'll see if we can schedule a session (10 minute video call) If you just want to mess with Folk yourself: folk.computer/pilot has our OSS software and hardware recs forms.gle/eMGCkQjYRvxf8S…

Thanks for coming to our open house: - @jtaylorhodge - @mellyeliu - @shivakilaru - @CedHon

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We published our 🏵️ June newsletter! Lots of new demos, friends, and capabilities added in June. See them all on our website (in the tweet below) @jtaylorhodge

🎥 Watch the talk online: youtu.be/hrXEtG3JILo?si…

Thank you to everyone who came to our last Localhost talk with @cwervo and @rsnous! They presented on @FolkComputer and unveiled the Folk Gadget! Together we escaped the screen and entered the realm of light and paper-based computing. ​📽️📄🌀 Watch the recording below:⬇️

high-dimensional bouncing DVD logo

it's @FolkComputer controlling slides

Made a precision D6 @FolkComputer It's kinda like a knob, but also a die, so you can roll any number between 0 - 6, like 4.31 or 2.76!

We're announcing our first two speakers, as well as opening up a call for presentations. Andres Cuervo @cwervo from @FolkComputer and Lu Wilson @TodePond from @tldraw will be joining us for Causal Islands Berlin, Oct 4th & 5th. 1/2

i like how phone vibrate makes different weird sounds depending on what the phone is touching/sitting on, feels like a rare interaction between computer and the physical environment

It turns out that the gadget text rendering is garbled because the Raspberry Pi GPU Vulkan driver (v3dv) does not support dynamic indexing into an array of descriptors, the index just always gets sent to 0 with no warning

clipboards are the future of computation

They keep on forking my hands!

Folk at @RecurseCenter is up and running! Thanks @jmgrosen for getting this set up

once you experience @FolkComputer you’ll never stop thinking about malleable interfaces

Some alums building great indie stuff outside typical jobs: @b0rk writing zines @itseieio designing wacky games @rsnous & @cwervo making @FolkComputer @heyvrk creating software that ♡'s paper @saulfp making @VisiData @FiloSottile maintaining OSS Andrew Kelley building @ziglang

idea: computer which has a port bitmap instead of port numbers; programs can color in (bind) specific pixel regions of the port bitmap