Experiment notes

The split-flap board just crossed an invisible line, so it's worth writing down where that line is.

This site is the lab bench. Entries here are allowed to be rough, half-wired, and honest about it — every card carries badges saying exactly what state it's in. The workshop site is the opposite: finished write-ups with a Problem / Approach / Outcome / Lessons structure.

Graduation isn't about polish. It's about having a story. A prototype moves to the workshop when it can answer four questions in full: what problem it solved, how the approach worked, what the outcome was, and what was learnt. The split-flap board earned that when the browser prototype proved the concept end-to-end — public display, protected control, free-tier infrastructure holding up.

Two rules make the pipeline work. Nothing graduates silently: the workshop write-up links its own history, this entry stays as the living status page, and rough edges don't get deleted — they get dated. And badges stay honest on both sides of the line: a "testing" badge on a graduated project would break the whole system's credibility.

Next candidate watching from the bench: whatever Robin's researcher node becomes once its test set gets scored.

The main Digital Workshop site is a public showcase — finished write-ups, settled content. This one is the opposite on purpose: prototypes that might break, forms that aren't wired up yet, demos labelled testing or concept.

Mixing the two would mean either watering down the main site with half-finished things, or being overly cautious here because it's attached to the polished site. Neither is good. So for now they're deliberately not linked to each other — that might change once this space earns its own shape.

This first version ships with typed placeholder content for every section — prototypes, forms, notes — so the layout and interaction patterns can be judged honestly before anything real goes in.

The plan is to replace one card at a time, starting with whichever prototype is closest to actually working, rather than trying to backfill everything at once.