diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b3d466b..92b2259 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Notebook assignments will at times link to code found in this directory. Some st ## Credit At the time of writing, this portfolio is solely the original work of David Westgate. Any credits to other contributors (including AI), if they occour will be noted in-line with the particular content. -Technical and foundational knowledge for this content is primarily credited to the [course notes](https://github.com/pdx-cs-sound/course-notes) provided by Professor Masseey +Technical and foundational knowledge for this content is primarily credited to the [course notes](https://github.com/pdx-cs-sound/course-notes) provided by Professor Massey ## License The [MIT License](https://opensource.org/license/mit) applies to all original contributions diff --git a/badge.png b/badge.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5956f04 Binary files /dev/null and b/badge.png differ diff --git a/book.jpg b/book.jpg new file mode 100755 index 0000000..916d6f0 Binary files /dev/null and b/book.jpg differ diff --git a/notebook.md b/notebook.md index f711c55..5100b52 100644 --- a/notebook.md +++ b/notebook.md @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +### Sunday 27-Oct-2024 + +🤔 Lectures this week focused primarily on a review of the pre-recorded topics from the previous week, including seeing some examples of using fourier transforms between the frequency and time domain, seeing visual representations in audacity, and listening to examples of applied filters + +This weekend I also attended the [BSidesPDX](https://bsidespdx.org/) InfoSec conference on Friday and Saturday. While most of the talks and workshops were not directly relevant to the content of this course, I mention this as it was a bit of a time commitment which I have to fit my other academic goals around. + +One interesting takeaway from BSides was the badge, which is an embedded device with an [RP2040](https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/rp2040/specifications/) controller, USB-C port, LCD display, I2C connection, RGB-LCD and IR blaster/reciever. The badge served as an ice-breaker game to trade and collect candies from other badge holders, to later exchange for real candy. It worked well for this purpose, but the badge did not have speaker or sound integrated. I have been considering what it would take to append a small speaker to this device to perhaps improve the user experience with some low-bit sound feedback for navigating the menu, or trading + +![badge.png](./badge.png) + ### Sunday 20-Oct-2024 📝 **Understanding Frequency (2/2)**: Here I watched the remaining three lectures * [Musical Notes](https://media.pdx.edu/media/t/1_cfrix2or/359647152) @@ -35,6 +45,8 @@ These lectures were relatively dense with the calculus based maths requied to wo ⚙️ On tuesday, I picked up a copy of the course textbook from the library and have since read the first 3 chapters +![book.jpg](./book.jpg) + 🤔 Our lectures this week focused on the digital aspects of computer sounds. Particularly, some of this had overlap with topics of my other class CS590 Multimedia Computing and Networking such as the basics of analog to digital conversion, discretation, sampling rate, bit rate, and the nyquist limit, which were coincedentally lectured just an hour before this course. However, here in CSM, we got into further details regarding the bit represtation, and hardware architecture implications, endianness, etc. of storing sound data in bytes. After discussing the theory, the more hands on exposure to programming computer sounds with python was my first experience seeing such a demo. This segues well into the first portfolio assignment, Clipped 📝 **Clipped**: Today I began work on the portfolio assignment, [Clipped](./code/clipped/README.md).