January 2026 notes
Receipt printer & camera fixes; dual-tag quads experiment; China trip; shape library work; TrOCR handwriting experiment; new intro booklet
We’ve published the Folk Computer newsletter for January 2026:
In December, we officially 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:
Summary from January:
Omar visited China, showed off pink gadget1, brought back some inspiring gadgets, started on some PCB design
Daniel Pipkin and Mason Jones experimented with dual-tag quads
Daniel Pipkin fixed ESC/POS receipt printer support for folk2
Esben Sørig contributed camera setup fixes, including extending timeouts for Logitech C270 support and fixing aspect ratios on /calibrate
Andrés and Brian worked on the shape library for highlighting objects
Omar began integrating TrOCR and CRAFT for live handwriting recognition on the table
Hosted an small open house where visitors used a new Folk introductory booklet
Want to come by and see the latest Folk updates?
RSVP here for the next open house, on the evening of Thursday, February 26, at our studio in East Williamsburg: