February 2023 notes

We held a workshop! We did things!

What we've been up to

We held a workshop! People made some cool programs & we had people make imaginary creatures & label them using Folk:

Two other fun results of the workshop:

Left: A stack of origami shirts with Folk-drawn arm. Right: an ASCII art bunny from a Folk program

RFID localization is progressing! Here's a progress photo of some rings (drawn in Folk) that correspond to possible tag locations.

We implemented:

• joins

• collecting joins

• stacking outlines

If you'd like to join our next workshop respond to this email!

We're starting to add people to our private Github repo, if you'd like access become one of our Github Sponsors.

What we're up to next month

Another open house! RSVP here (the L train will actually be running this day 🥳) & invite friends to come, we’d like to have people see Folk to tell us what they like, what they think is missing, what they’re dreaming of using it for!

Bibliography

Andrés:

• Ant workers tagged with fiducial markers

• rewtro: Papercraft videogame cartridges you can print and pirate with a copy machine

• aleatora: compose music with streams

Omar:

• Carrier Phase-Based Ranging in Indoor Multipath Channels

• Wireless Positioning Technologies and Applications, Second Edition, Chapter 4 (Multicarrier Phase of Arrival)

• Datalog and Emerging Applications: an Interactive Tutorial

• "Statically typed file system?"

• "The fact that Tcl is pronounced “tickle” has been keeping me awake at night. What a meme-ass programming language name"

From our #ideas channel:

• A GPS for Smart Pills

• "so... tailscale has invented DNS gacha " (tweet w/ a pic)

• Medieval calendar!