grant

had a cursed thought about setting up the touch frame i use with an axidraw. so then a programmed path would go in through a stylus and then be reread as touch events. interesting thing would be to have the axidraw repeat and then augment/glitch with additional organic touch events.

Using the digital tabletop with a smart TV to make ad hoc ambient dashboards:

Touch-based dynamic camera cropping on the tabletop:

Drones on the digital tabletop:

Working on a tabletop collage app, and enjoying this "write to navigate" experience.

Construction and water:

Thinking about collage:

How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand:

Feeling the lack:

Thinking about the role of decoration on the tabletop:

A lot of building intuition about a project area is seeing what you can get away with leaving out or not doing. As a way of testing what's essential.

Tabletop interactions:

Constraints:

Return to tabletop:

Exploring Andrew Sutherland's paper computer demo (t.co/gkV0f6zS4l) on the tabletop:

Testing posting this from my tabletop app? Please ignore, will be deleted.

Exploring the 10/GUI demo video (www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWz1...) and multi-touch possibilities on the tabletop:

A backpack demo:

Added a board link feature to help navigate the tabletop

I spent the summer prototyping a device that projects information and imbues computing into the real world, I call it the Lightbulb Computer. Full write up and demos at lightbulbcomputer.com Or on YouTube: youtu.be/0R-9qkjPEqg

Experimenting with pinned cards and frames on the tabletop;

New tabletop recording setup:

Thinking about tabletop frame and file mechanics: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqoa...

I can post a blue sky from the tabletop now using a frame.

Enjoyed this history of Zoomable User Interfaces/Infinite Canvases from Interface Studies. It suggests success of Figma versus earlier system interfaces is that the user populates the space themselves (vs the system determining the layout. Better for orienting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OESX...

Wrote about an Eno quote from How Buildings Learn. Thinking about how the gradient of constraints in a space give you an entry point into its story. feed.grantcuster.com/post/2026-09...

Experimenting with importing web pages and text files onto the canvas.

Putting together frames and cards to preview and think through writing: