February 2026 notes

Python FFI, image segmentation, text recognition; sound wheel; stdout and stderr redirection; Folk February; Hamish Todd's talk; post-calibration refinement

We’ve published the Folk Computer newsletter for February 2026:

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Summary from February:

• Daniel Pipkin’s Inktober-like month-long challenge for the community to build prompt-based Folk programs

• Omar added a new Python FFI

  • Basic image segmentation and text detection and handwriting detection demos

• Editor now supports selection, copy, paste, and undo

• Working on post-calibration refinement step to be able to reliably get accurate calibration

• Andrés built a sound wheel that can roll around and make sounds

• Experiments with Expect construct to add hard, imperative statement dependency to programs

• stdout and stderr redirection and program index Web page: cleans up terminal output and makes programs more individually debuggable and monitorable

• Hamish Todd gave a talk about his experiments with 3D interaction and projection:

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