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Cryptocurrency

May 27, 2022May 30, 2022 by adminNo Comments

Proof-of-work vs Proof-of-stake the battle of consensus mechanisms for the future of cryptocurrency mining nodes by Natasha Kingsley, Design Enterprise Studio Member, March 2022Nowadays in this digital era, it is beyond reasonable doubt that most people know what a cryptocurrency is. What they don’t necessarily know is how to start mining it. This article will dive into the inner workings of each mechanism and explain why each one could be a potential contender.My name is Natasha Kingsley, I am a sound designer and videographer with a current interest in cryptocurrencies. The power play between the predominant and alternative mechanisms for mining blockchain technologies has recently been on my radar; sparking my interest in answering the question: which mechanism will gain command as the predominant consensus in the future? Wait, how do you actually mine a crypto asset?Well, to understand the way the consensus mechanisms work, you first must understand how to mine cryptocurrency in the first place. It all starts with a blockchain....

Libraries & Frameworks

May 26, 2022May 30, 2022 by adminNo Comments

Libraries and frameworks for a budding front end developer by Cameron Tebbenham-Small, Design Enterprise Studio Member, March 2022So, you’ve made your first website, maybe even a few, but now you want to look ahead and advance to an intermediate level. Let me introduce you to the wonderful world of CSS and JavaScript libraries frameworks by exploring a few that I have used in my own workflows. But firstly, what are frameworks and libraries and how do they differ?A coding library is a collection of standard functionalities – pieces of reusable code that enable developers to skip a great many steps that have likely already been accomplished by developers before them. These could be maths functions, interactive web-forms or other that are then inserted into your code as a supplementary function. Think of it like adding an extra chair to your room – you’ve already done some decorating, but don’t want to build a full new Ikea chair so get something premade...

RGB Matrix Build

May 23, 2022May 30, 2022 by adminNo Comments

How to build an RGB LED Board by Joshua Hart, Design Enterprise Studio Member , March 2022Hi, I am Josh, a final year student in Digital Media who enjoys the physical building of computing devices as well as interfacing with them using software environments. This article will walk you through the necessary steps so you can build yourself a decent size RGB display board at home. RGB LED display board, built by Josh. This board uses ten 32 x 64 panels. RGB LED panels have long been recognised for their large scale and bright presence at live music shows/ festivals and are now rapidly becoming the go-to display board for advertising content and information in our cities. The modular nature of the boards allows for easy configuration, which means they can fit any space. This and the ease of updating the boards remotely with new content make it a no-brainer for advertising. Since starting this project I have been collecting examples of RGB...

Audio Classification

March 23, 2021May 30, 2022 by adminNo Comments

State of the Art Audio Classification – Simply by Erik Tomica, Design Enterprise Studio Member, March 2021 Have you ever wondered how can humans recognise music and sounds in just a couple of seconds? And how applications like Shazam replicate that despite of such a vast amount of music released every year? How are humans able to tell someone’s emotion based on the tone of their voice and would a machine be able to do the same without any understanding of what emotion is? This post aims to answer some of these questions in a simple way. There won’t be any technical terminology and if so, this will be very simply explained so let’s dive right in:A lot of progress in machine learning and IT in general comes from understanding humans, how we do things and why. In the case of audio recognition and audio classification we [humans] have have taken inspiration from mother nature once again. It all started with a simple question:...

NFTs for Digital Artists

March 19, 2021May 30, 2022 by adminNo Comments

Are NFTs the future for Digital Media Artists? by Joe Hall, Design Enterprise Studio Member, March 2021The emergence of NFTs (or non-fungible token) has come from the surge of popularity in blockchain technology over the last few years. On the 11th of March 2021, the first purely digital NFT based artwork offered at an auction house, ‘The First 5000 Days’ (shown here), was sold at Christie’s for $69 million. The artist, Beeple, became one of the top 3 most valuable living artists because of this sale. He started his NFT career on Nifty Gateway, a marketplace for Nifties (their word for NFT’s), back in October 2020 with the 3 open edition artworks he released in December 2020 for $969, reselling for as much as $125,000 in March 2021. My name is Joe Hall, I am a multimedia designer and videographer. Recently I have been obsessed with all thing’s cryptocurrency, especially how they can be used to improve the Digital Media industry. Looking into...