Supporting Maker Education through the Infy Maker Awards
By Make Community
As a result of COVID19, this past year has presented a magnitude of challenges to learning and education that has not been seen before. The sudden flip to a remote or hybrid model has made learning more difficult for some and nearly impossible for others, particularly those in low-income communities […]
Secret Life of Machines’ Tim Hunkin Is Back With New Web Series
By Craig Couden
The Secret Life of Machines alum Tim Hunkin is set to unveil a new web series focusing on explaining basic components, called The Secret Life of Components.
What Would You Do With An Industrial AI Platform?
By Caleb Kraft
Get ready to start thinking on a whole different level. With the E-RT3, you could be doing automation with some of the toughest and most robust hardware in the world. In this contest, Make: Community along with Yokogawa challenge you to come up with interesting projects for their automation platform. […]
Shift 5% of Workforce Training Funds to Advance Entrepreneurship
By Make Community
America’s economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic requires new business growth. An estimated 60% of business closures due to the pandemic appear to be permanent, and new businesses create virtually all job growth in America. Here’s one solution: shift 5% of government workforce training funds to support entrepreneurs. That shift […]
[Attoparsec] has been building intriguing musical projects on his YouTube channel for a while and his latest is no exception. Dubbed simply as “Node Module”, it is a rack-mounted hardware-based Markov chain beat sequencer. Traditionally Markov chains are software state machines that transition between states with given probabilities, often learned from a training corpus. That same principle has been applied to hardware beat sequencing.
Each Node Module has a trigger input, four outputs each with a potentiometer, and a trigger out. [Attoparsec] has a wonderful explanation of all the different parts and theories that make up the module at the start of his video, but the basic operation is that a trigger input comes in and the potentiometers are read to determine the probabilities of each output. One is randomly selected and fired. As you can imagine, there are loops and even dead-end nodes and for some musical pieces there is a certain number of beats expected, so a clever reset signal can be sent to pull the chain back to the initial starting state at a regular interval. The results are interesting to listen to and even better to imagine all the possibilities.
As a result of COVID19, this past year has presented a magnitude of challenges to learning and education that has not been seen before. The sudden flip to a remote or hybrid model has made learning more difficult for some and nearly impossible for others, particularly those in low-income communities […]
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