Yeah I love that idea!! We've been talking about ways to get as quickly as possible to tangible representations, like a workflow where you 3D print intermediate designs (maybe out of some custom lego-like pieces with integrated fiducials of some kind), make modifications in a hybrid tangible/projected space, reprint blocks/diffs where needed, etc., and it would be magical to mount the actual components on linear actuators like this for the ability to seamlessly switch between direct manipulation and computerized/parametric manipulation (which is exactly what "flying faders" on high-end mixers are great examples of!) > On Jun 7, 2023, at 11:46 PM, Bret Victor <****************> wrote: > > Very cool! > > It made me think of, for showing z-depth, you could get a motorized fader and prop it up vertically on the table, and hook it up to a microcontroller or raspberry pi. As you dial the z up and down, the knob on the fader would move to the physically-correct height. > > (You could probably also show z-depth by leaning an ordinary dot frame at an angle, and projecting an ordinary line on it. But the actuator would be cooler.) > > I wonder if you could even do something where the page is lying flat on a tray, and the actuator moves the tray up and down, so the page itself is at the z-height.... > > > <Overview | Flying Faders | Adafruit Learning System.jpeg> > >> On Jun 7, 2023, at 11:03 AM, Luke Iannini <****************> wrote: >> >> The Apple presentation (which I felt obligated to watch to answer the inevitable questions on its relationship to DL) bummed me out so hard I had to vent the emotions into making something useful — here's a DNA bricks editor prototype I made in about 2 hours total yesterday and today, in 131 lines of code thanks to Realtalk and Scene Kit, made in a continuous conversation with the medium. >> >> [DNA bricks editor prototype.mkv] >> >> >