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grant @grantcuster.com · 20h

Something cool about the idea of being able to print scroll and then search back through with the physical paper moving - could make it work with a receipt printer - and then overwriting would be printing and inserting a 'patch'.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 20h

Scrolls I'm thinking about:
- actual paper scroll (Yancy Strickler tweet)
- one long doc canon cat scroll
- receipt printer scroll

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grant @grantcuster.com · 20h

i think one of the weirder/interesting parts is how i get things in and out - I could definitely just sync the large doc into my other machines - but i'd like to keep it a little 'place'/special feeling. wonder if I could do tags that sent specific sections out...

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grant @grantcuster.com · 20h

Lately been really wanting to put together a dedicated device (cyber/writer deck-like) and have the entire interface be one document -- lots of patterns here that could be interesting.

Alexander Obenauer @alexanderobenauer.com · 21h

This article is now public! Link in reply.

I recreated Jef Raskin's 1987 'Canon Cat' user environment and observed myself as I lived in it for a week.

Implementation details, surprises, and more in the essay.

(Why touch grass when you can read 3.2k words on user environments?)

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grant @grantcuster.com · 1d

🌱 DIY Writer Decks
From https://www.writerdeck.org/list-of-diy-writerdecks.html
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-10-14-11-42-27-diy-writer-decks

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 2d

By changing only a single byte in the code of Mario Paint, the music composer will not stop at the end of the song and instead continue to play the entire contents of the console's memory as music.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 3d

This was great!

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grant @grantcuster.com · 5d

Ah I remember this sent me on a big Tim Rogers binge

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grant @grantcuster.com · 9d

Yea I was curious about something like this — can’t justify starting another blog/feed beyond the two I self-host, but would like to participate in some of the leaflet fun.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 12d

this is perfect down to the Reddit source icon

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grant @grantcuster.com · 13d

@maxbittker.bsky.social
I remembered/looked up shaderbooth.com and it is good!

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grant @grantcuster.com · 16d

Also did a 3 card one - different tags all get IDs which makes me think of doing some sort of weird physical variable assignment thing.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 16d

More experiments with Apriltags:
a color-picker where
x=red
y=green
rotation=blue

freeform physical slider feels interesting

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grant @grantcuster.com · 19d

🌱 Tabletop: Levels of perception
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-09-26-20-36-35-levels-of-perception

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grant @grantcuster.com · 20d

You can also just write stuff down -- post-it note album covers might be fun.

grant @grantcuster.com · 20d

folk has a nice guide on this stuff folk.computer/pilot although there projector suggestions seem out of stock

pilot [Folk Computer]

folk.computer

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grant @grantcuster.com · 20d

I'm happy it's bright and also in eco mode (which is generally bright enough) the fan doesn't run all the time.

It's possible you could go cheaper and be fine -- I found it tough to decipher what projector spec differences would mean in practice.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 20d

Sure - I got this one www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQ3Y6GN...

it's about 3 feet above the desktop and 21 inches tall on the desk.

I settled at 1080p bc the jump in price for 4k was big. Text seems real readable but i'm not doing prolonged time on it. This is the DIY mount.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 20d

This works pretty well just asking Gemini. Sometime I'd like to do a version based on embeddings of my personal collection.

I think this could be cool in a shared space?

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grant @grantcuster.com · 20d

Book-to-soundtrack experiment - a projector setup where I send the book image off to an LLM for recommendations and then play with Spotify.

Meant to be kind of like putting on a record but for objects. (I clipped out the loading times.)

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grant @grantcuster.com · 23d

I got two - going to probably mount at 45 degrees and experiment. Still getting used to the sizing rules - maybe I should get a big mirror to flip up from the desk to shift from desktop to wall.

grant @grantcuster.com · 23d

A curtain is kind of a physical shader.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 23d

I got a mirror to experiment with the projector

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grant @grantcuster.com · 27d

Now I'm thinking about SandScape tangible.media.mit.edu/project/sand...

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grant @grantcuster.com · 27d

Trying out april tags. Thinking about how it could complement hand tracking and vision models.

This is using github.com/arenaxr/apri... and I know what april tags are because of folk.computer.

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