[andrewgleave]

Anyone interested in Dynamicland may want to check out Paper Programs.

It's been about 5 years since I last played with it.

It’s great fun and should be much more interactive with 5+ years of browser and hardware development.

https://github.com/janpaul123/paperprograms

[picometer]

I had this set up on a vertical wall at my previous apartment and it was so much fun. I’m working on getting it set up in my current place, too, and I’d really like to get it projecting downwards so that I don’t have to deal with taping things to the wall.

Fyi for those interested: you need a color printer. You need a good projector. You need a good webcam. I already had the printer, got a projector as a hand-me-down, and shelled out the $ for a good webcam.

It can be a little finicky if you don’t have the perfect setup. For me, I got it to work in an hour or so, once I figured out a good mounting location for the projector. Then I had to periodically fiddle with the webcam settings as the light in the room changed. I’m considering investing in black fabric to improve the contrast.

Also, I suspect much of Dynamicland’s magic is in RealTalk, which is not open source. The Paper Programs repo uses Javascript with a realtalk-esque mini framework. This means that Paper Programs doesn’t quite achieve the goals set out by Dynamicland, ie, that it spills be approachable and imminently learnable to all ages, backgrounds, skill levels. My partner and I are both programmers, and both patient, so we’ve been able to replicate a little bit of Dynamicland’s social magic.

[randito]

I tried setting up Paper Programs in my office, and had similar issues trying to get it to work. Glad that you were able to play with it.