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Devine Lu Linvega

It's a slippery slope from making a flow-based operating system, to why do I even have a keyboard to do computing at all, to I could do it all with my pencil, to fuck it let's implement GRAIL.

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Odo Tournesol

@neauoire 3 years from now

"why do I need to use an implement at all? Eye-based Operating system here I come!"

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@neauoire i've definitely been thinking of something similar recently. if this could be implemented it'd be amazing. adding support for wacom tablets or whatever would be a huge deal

Devine Lu Linvega

@jr I'll wip out a quick implementation to try this out :)

bouncepaw ๐Ÿ„

@neauoire I'm waiting for you to discover the wonderful world of self-made keyboards. With the computing environment you use you have less constraints in design. What could you make?

I used to make ergonomic keyboards from foamboard and cheapest switches, these were some good times!

klava.wiki/hypha/ัะฐะณะฐั€ะธั

Devine Lu Linvega

@bouncepaw I made a couple of those, I use a planck 6, but for a while I did livecoding shows with only a 12 keys keyboard :)
youtube.com/watch?v=cgBvWsM3Z7

Devine Lu Linvega

Unsigned integer trigonometry is my kryptonite

Timo the timo

@neauoire trigo warning for all my triangophobes out there

Devine Lu Linvega

The color of the line reflects the direction of the stroke.

Devine Lu Linvega

Detecting direction changes, getting closer to glyph decoding!!

Natris

@neauoire does it do another color when drawing from right to left?

Devine Lu Linvega

@Natris1979 yeah, it draws white on white, so we don't see it.

Devine Lu Linvega

Okay, so in theory I might be able to find similar glyphs based on these arrows..

origedit

@neauoire symbols like 7 are gonna be tough. What about 8 directions rather than 4?

Devine Lu Linvega

@origedit it gets way more finicky at 8, 7 is really easy to write tho, it doesn't conflict with anything.

timthelion

@neauoire quick, draw a bunch of swasticas! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

Hart of the Wud

@neauoire A friend and I did a little thing where we reverse-engineered the Moleskine "smart pen" to grab output and saved output and convert it to SVG. We made it into a wonky screenless CMS where each physical page in the notebook is a web page: gitlab.com/bhowell/penpub

Demo site here: penpub.ink/

You can find the pens used for cheap sometimes. And you can print your own encoded paper on a decent laser printer (although the professional stuff looks and works slightly better).

We wanted to do more crazy interface experiments but we got busy with other stuff.

@neauoire A friend and I did a little thing where we reverse-engineered the Moleskine "smart pen" to grab output and saved output and convert it to SVG. We made it into a wonky screenless CMS where each physical page in the notebook is a web page: gitlab.com/bhowell/penpub

Demo site here: penpub.ink/

Diego F. Goberna

@neauoire coincidentally, I was doing something similar a few months ago.

feiss.github.io/juli/

It was aimed to dislexic people doing math. So only supports numbers, it recognizes flipped gestures (you can draw a 5 looking to the left), and aligns to the grid.

Wip, hacky implementation, etc. Everything is in the page source code, no dependencies.

Diego F. Goberna

@neauoire I didn't follow any existing implementation or tutorial, I just remembered Engelbart's demo and gave it a try. It worked better than expected (+ lots of fine-tuning after the first try) and I was really happy to avoid neural network craziness. Good luck with yours! It's fun stuff

krowe

@neauoire I feel like my minds been blown that I can have other ways of writing code besides just a keyboard.

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