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Spooky Hot-Cross Buns - Sonic Pi In a previous post on another blog I discussed quick play with Sonic Pi ( see  https://computingnorthampton.blogspot.com/2020/08/quick-play-... PS3 Controller to move a USB Robot Arm Guest Blogger Hiren Mistry, Nuffield Research Placement Student working at the University of Northampton. How to use a PS3 Controller to... 10 most read post (July 2020) on Robots and Physical Computing Blog Popular Posts Speech Recognition in Scratch 3 - turning Hello into Bonjour! The Raspberry Pi Foundation recently released a programming acti... Speech Recognition in Scratch 3 - turning Hello into Bonjour! The Raspberry Pi Foundation recently released a programming activity Alien Language , with support Dale from Machine Learning for Kids , tha... Nuffield Foundation Researcher Placement Project: Further Development of Junkbots New blog  https://junkbotactivities.blogspot.com/  by  Muhammad Vadia on the Nuffield Foundation Researcher Placement Pr...

New blog  https://junkbotactivities.blogspot.com/  by  Muhammad Vadia on the Nuffield Foundation Researcher Placement Program has been working on developing a series of activities for the Junkbots project. These activities focus on using Scratch to develop coding skills by building up a simulation of the junkbot. These can be found at: What are Junkbots & intro to Scratch :  https://junkbotactivities.blogspot.com/2020/08/junkbots-introduction.html Activity 2 - Learning some new concepts:  https://junkbotactivities.blogspot.com/2020/08/junkbots-computational-concepts.html Junkbots - Understanding Scratch   https://junkbotactivities.blogspot.com/2020/08/junkbots-understanding-scratch.html Junkbots - Creating a sprite  https://junkbotactivities.blogspot.com/2020/08/junkbots-creating-sprite.html Junkbots - Moving the bot  https://junkbotactivities.blogspot.com/2020/08/junkbots-moving-bot.html Junkbots - Spawning some rocks  https://junkb...

In a previous post on another blog I discussed quick play with Sonic Pi ( see  https://computingnorthampton.blogspot.com/2020/08/quick-play-with-sonic-pi.html  ). In this post I am really just going to take it a bit further and some new features. The goal - spooky/moanful Hot-Cross Buns (the only bit of music I know the notes for), just so I can play a bit. So let us start with resources I have found useful, alongside Sonic Pi ( https://sonic-pi.net/ ); a really useful  webpage is  https://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/notes.html  to turn the notes into the MIDI number (60, etc)  So by the end of the last post I going to adding a techno effect on top of the tune: use_synth :prophet with_fx :ixi_techno do   2.times do     play chord(:b4, :minor7)     sleep 0.5     play chord(:a4, :minor7)     sleep 0.5     play chord(:g4, :minor7)     sleep 0.5   end   4.times do     play ch...