guides:what-folk-can-do
Creative environments
- Jessie Grosen made a SuperCollider-based audio system using Folk. Here, she's pulling out an audio track, using 'hands' to carve subsections out of the track, then operating on those subsections:
Kids and computing
- Vedran Budimcic has been building a Scratch-like environment in Folk. This month, he added support for multiple characters:
Vedran: I think I only need to do a few more things before I can let me kids try to break it: 1. Put the cards on something thicker like cardboard. Easier for little hands. Maybe laminate as well. 2. Consider character actions from left to right instead of order of appearance. Right now it only considers the actions on the right of the “play” pages, but doesn't consider their order.
Vedran also set up a Folk system on a toy train track. The train has a Folk tag on it, so the system knows its location, so it can play sounds as the train passes through different areas on the track:
General capabilities
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Writes
Hello boxand outlines itself red with the code:Can point at each other (notice the
RIGHT OF PROGRAMappear when the left program's green pointer hits the right)Draw all sorts of shapes:
Get a
camera slice(the area the camera sees above a program):
Teach math
- Mason Jones has started working on a linear algebra tutorial:
You can put these programs together and vary the programs slightly to create booklets:
You can combine multiple programs to make folders that:
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