There are a number of little handheld gadgets that you can use with MakeCode—scroll down on the homepage and there’s a section that shows them all:

https://arcade.makecode.com/

In email, I naturally write things like "...on the example website (www.example.com)..."

Markdown keeps those () in the same place, and just adds the [] so you can delimit the visible text: "...on the [example website](www.example.com)..."

* I had to escape all of these asterisks.

** I see this happen fairly often to people's comments here.

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After playing TIS a bit I found it really interesting to read about the Transputers and the Connection Machines, two similar real-world architectures.

David Ackley’s T2 Tile project[0] and Movable Feast Machine[1] look similar to me too, but they take the idea much further; the aim is to create an infinitely scalable and totally decentralized architecture. I only know a little about it, but it’s super cool stuff.

[0] https://t2tile.com/ [1] https://movablefeastmachine.org/

The posts about the System/360 consoles come to mind, for example. I’m not sure how “popular” those were(?), but they’ve been very helpful as references for an art project I’m working on!

Obsidian creates a hidden directory in your “vault,” which contains plugin files, plus metadata about your settings, currently opened files, etc. If those settings don’t work equally well on both systems, that would be a hassle. Maybe try copying all the files from inside the directory (so that you don’t grab that hidden dir when you do) instead of grabbing the whole directory.

You might also want to look at the git-obsidian plugin. It takes a little setup, but seems to work well once it’s going.

I am quite happy with my Rii I8X. The trackpad exceeded my expectations—I have no complaints. Having it centred makes a big difference, compared to the wobbly experience with the full-size units where it’s on the side.

My one complaint is that I can’t quite touch-type on it. But that’s probably OK if it’s for occasional use with an HTPC.

I think other brands make similar keyboard units with mini trackballs, but I don’t think I have seen any with trackpoints.

If this interests you, I highly recommend having a look: https://linktr.ee/color.nerd

The comment you're replying to sent me looking for references, too. The closest I found was this article, which mentions an installation at RAF Truleigh Hill: https://www.shorehambysea.com/raf-truleigh-hill/

"This device was a continuous photographic process which filmed the radar screen, processed the film and projected the image onto a glass screen within a very few seconds."

(I wonder whether something like the Eidophor system that NASA used for mission control would have been another option? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidophor)

Here's the example link from that comment: https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=16748657311...

Edit: and here's a random news article (post?) that has a working embedded tweet: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23780357/new-footage-of-t...

I’m an art teacher, and one of my favourite things to do with the kids is to create interactive digital comics. We use software like Krita to draw the pages, and then import them into Keynote to add hyperlinks between pages to turn them into choose-your-own-adventure style interactive fiction. And then we export to PDF…

LCD contact prints: https://pierremuth.wordpress.com/2020/04/18/digital-picture-...

Anthotypes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthotype

Salvaged displays: https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Use-an-Overhead-Project...

From a quick look this is what I ascertained: you select a diagram symbol using a keyboard, use a viewing screen (a specialized projector) to position it on the ”drawing”, and then once it’s in position the projected image is exposed onto film.

I’m a technically-minded artist/art historian who works a lot with projection, and this is a treat! What a great find!

If you like this you might also like Fran Blanche’s YouTube video about how the big screens at Apollo Mission Control worked.