I want to love this, and I just signed up, but I think I fail to see this platform’s differentiator: why would I go there rather than any of the other communities/forums that already exist? For example, I develop a tool for music performance/production in Pure Data, what will I find on UnfinishedProjects that I wouldn’t find on LinuxMusicians or Pure Data’s forum? I tinker with Arduino, why would I go to UnfinishedProjects rather than an Arduino forum? I’m slowly building my own answer as I write this, but IMO that’s what this post and the welcome page should be answering clearly: Why join this, rather than the thousand other options?

Also, as far as I understand, the wiki is meant to be an easy-to-browse directory of all projects that may already be discussed somewhere in the forum, but I see no clear connection between them. If I find an interesting project in the wiki, shouldn’t there be a simple way to find and join existing conversations on that topic? And the other way around, it would be nice to build a wiki page from information entered in the forum itself. I’m just thinking that any extra step in creating and finding stuff will slow down the growth of the platform.

Apologies if I just missed existing features, I’ve only spent 20min on it and I’m trying to give constructive first-impression feedback :)

Love this, thanks for your writeup and for telling the world about it!

I got the opentheremin v3 a few years ago, flashed the firmware to make it output MIDI (so I can play virtually any instrument sound with a theremin interface), connected it to an FM synth Pure Data patch, and send all this to my homemade DAW-less setup, including some effects to make it more fun :)

I do intend to use an expression pedal with it too. I once tried using a pedal to kind of autotune the theremin occasionally - which defeats the theremin’s purpose, I know 😆 but it was a fun experiment!

I then also found an open-source Raspberry-based saxophone ! Currently on the lookout for an open-source MPE controller, maybe Exquis…

No screen captures AFAIK (although it might be doable with a custom watcher), but maybe https://activitywatch.net/ can help.

I’ve used Logseq for 2-3 years but it’s slow and a pain to use on mobile. I discovered Tiddlywiki in December, I love how customizable it is, but it’s been taking me a while to tweak it to match my usual workflow. Running it via nodejs server on android (termux) and laptops (so I’m accessing it on localhost on all devices) and syncing the wikis between devices using Syncthing.