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@grantcuster.com
Slowly going out on a limb. Making experimental creative tools on the web at http://constraint.systems. He/him. grantcuster.com
🌱 Making:
Exploring an "everything is embedded" mini/fake social network.
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-11-11-08-53-36
Exploring an "everything is embedded" mini/fake social network.
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-11-11-08-53-36
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
🌱 Making:
Exploring an "everything is embedded" mini/fake social network.
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-11-11-08-53-36
Exploring an "everything is embedded" mini/fake social network.
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-11-11-08-53-36
🌱 Making: Cosine WIP
Working on a stripped down "embed anything and see its neighbors" prototype.
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-11-06-20-16-26-cosine-wip
Working on a stripped down "embed anything and see its neighbors" prototype.
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-11-06-20-16-26-cosine-wip
November 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
🌱 Making: Cosine WIP
Working on a stripped down "embed anything and see its neighbors" prototype.
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-11-06-20-16-26-cosine-wip
Working on a stripped down "embed anything and see its neighbors" prototype.
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-11-06-20-16-26-cosine-wip
I've been listening to a lot of playlists lately and wanting a way to learn more about the currently playing artist without pulling out my phone. I put together a little raspberry pi setup to sit on our shelves and display info about the current playing artist.
November 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I've been listening to a lot of playlists lately and wanting a way to learn more about the currently playing artist without pulling out my phone. I put together a little raspberry pi setup to sit on our shelves and display info about the current playing artist.
I made a (Spotify) web player for the excellent Herb Sundays (herbsundays.substack.com) playlist series.
It's focused on surfacing a random playlist from the series. I've been using it to put something on in the morning. It's nice to have hand-curated playlists with some intention to them.
It's focused on surfacing a random playlist from the series. I've been using it to put something on in the morning. It's nice to have hand-curated playlists with some intention to them.
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I made a (Spotify) web player for the excellent Herb Sundays (herbsundays.substack.com) playlist series.
It's focused on surfacing a random playlist from the series. I've been using it to put something on in the morning. It's nice to have hand-curated playlists with some intention to them.
It's focused on surfacing a random playlist from the series. I've been using it to put something on in the morning. It's nice to have hand-curated playlists with some intention to them.
🌱 Tabletop: Problem solving
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-10-30-13-50-51-problem-solving
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-10-30-13-50-51-problem-solving
October 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
🌱 Tabletop: Problem solving
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-10-30-13-50-51-problem-solving
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-10-30-13-50-51-problem-solving
Stitched together some Neovim autocmds with Niri window commands so that the app window is bound to the special "app" buffer position and size. One step closer to NeovimOS.
October 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Stitched together some Neovim autocmds with Niri window commands so that the app window is bound to the special "app" buffer position and size. One step closer to NeovimOS.
Thinking about reconfiguring my window manager setup to have an always-open terminal on the left. To serve as doc and navigation maybe.
October 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Thinking about reconfiguring my window manager setup to have an always-open terminal on the left. To serve as doc and navigation maybe.
🌱 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
From https://www.writerdeck.org/list-of-diy-writerdecks.html
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-10-14-11-42-27-diy-writer-decks
October 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
October 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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.
September 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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.
More experiments with Apriltags:
a color-picker where
x=red
y=green
rotation=blue
freeform physical slider feels interesting
a color-picker where
x=red
y=green
rotation=blue
freeform physical slider feels interesting
September 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
More experiments with Apriltags:
a color-picker where
x=red
y=green
rotation=blue
freeform physical slider feels interesting
a color-picker where
x=red
y=green
rotation=blue
freeform physical slider feels interesting
🌱 Tabletop: Levels of perception
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-09-26-20-36-35-levels-of-perception
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-09-26-20-36-35-levels-of-perception
September 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
🌱 Tabletop: Levels of perception
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-09-26-20-36-35-levels-of-perception
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-09-26-20-36-35-levels-of-perception
You can also just write stuff down -- post-it note album covers might be fun.
September 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
You can also just write stuff down -- post-it note album covers might be fun.
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.
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.
September 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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.
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.
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.)
Meant to be kind of like putting on a record but for objects. (I clipped out the loading times.)
September 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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.)
Meant to be kind of like putting on a record but for objects. (I clipped out the loading times.)
I got a mirror to experiment with the projector
September 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I got a mirror to experiment with the projector
Now I'm thinking about SandScape tangible.media.mit.edu/project/sand...
September 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Now I'm thinking about SandScape tangible.media.mit.edu/project/sand...
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.
This is using github.com/arenaxr/apri... and I know what april tags are because of folk.computer.
September 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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.
This is using github.com/arenaxr/apri... and I know what april tags are because of folk.computer.
Two-hand gets a bit more interesting
September 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Two-hand gets a bit more interesting
Getting a feel for projector and hand-tracking possibilities by experimenting with a color picker. I can use pointer finger without pinch if I give it a path where it doesn't have to go through other things - kind of like a maze.
September 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Getting a feel for projector and hand-tracking possibilities by experimenting with a color picker. I can use pointer finger without pinch if I give it a path where it doesn't have to go through other things - kind of like a maze.
Trying out hand-tracking triggered buttons and some simple LLM calls. There are definite limits imposed by hand-tracking and projector display - but they're kind of interesting ones.
September 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Trying out hand-tracking triggered buttons and some simple LLM calls. There are definite limits imposed by hand-tracking and projector display - but they're kind of interesting ones.
With colors - this wasn't working well at first but I realized it was because the shift in light was throwing the webcam's auto-exposure. Turning on the overhead light fixed it.
September 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
With colors - this wasn't working well at first but I realized it was because the shift in light was throwing the webcam's auto-exposure. Turning on the overhead light fixed it.
Table buttons for the projector - hand-tracking and triggering on overlap seems generally promising.
September 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Table buttons for the projector - hand-tracking and triggering on overlap seems generally promising.
🌱 Tabletop: Robert Irwin
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-09-14-10-04-25-robert-irwin
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-09-14-10-04-25-robert-irwin
September 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🌱 Tabletop: Robert Irwin
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-09-14-10-04-25-robert-irwin
https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-09-14-10-04-25-robert-irwin
Quick shelf tryout. Maybe should be -> group select into shelves and then books on there own can optionally be sorted into nearest embedded shelf.
Dilemma is probably I'm recreating limitations of physical objects - why only one shelf per book?
Dilemma is probably I'm recreating limitations of physical objects - why only one shelf per book?
September 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Quick shelf tryout. Maybe should be -> group select into shelves and then books on there own can optionally be sorted into nearest embedded shelf.
Dilemma is probably I'm recreating limitations of physical objects - why only one shelf per book?
Dilemma is probably I'm recreating limitations of physical objects - why only one shelf per book?