Folk Computer

Folk is an interaction computing system with projectors and computer vision, with programs being placed in and interacted with in the real world.

Created by Omar Rizwan and Andrés Cuervo after their team at Dynamicland

Folk is a physical computing system: reactive database, programming environment, projection mapping. Instead of a phone/laptop/touchscreen/mouse/keyboard, your computational objects are physical objects in the real world, and you can program them inside the system itself. Folk is written in a mix of C and Tcl.

Presentation at Causal Islands Berlin 2024 Folk Computing Presentation Causal Islands Berlin 2024