HyperCarousel gives the Kodak Carousel slide projector hypertext navigation. Load a tray of custom HyperSlides, press a number on a numpad, and the projector jumps to the linked slide. It's Vannevar Bush's Memex, described in his 1945 paper As We May Think, reimagined with a 1960s slide projector instead of a computer.
Each HyperSlide carries its own handwritten lookup table printed on the mount. A camera reads the table, an ESP32 decides where to go next, and a servo presses the carousel's advance button. The creator workflow stays analog (printed transparencies, laser-cut cardstock, pen-and-paper link tables), with the navigation layer running quietly on top.
Built as the final project for MIT's How to Make (Almost) Anything. Full build documentation, including every iteration and detour, lives on the htmaa project page.
