Turing 201: Unlocking the Secrets of the Turing Machine 🤖

There aren't many modules as iconic as the Turing Machine - for a long time it was the the go-to for starting to explore generative music.  It may have been eclipsed somewhat by Mutable Instruments Marbles, but Turing Machine is still my mainstay.  When I started using the Monome Teletype for generative stuff, it made sense that I'd want to recreate the Turing Machine in that environment.  The next video in my Teletype series is going to be about that - but in order to tell people how to recreate it, I first have to explain how the original works.  That's where this video comes in.

Lots of videos will tell you how to use Turing Machine, but I haven't seen anyone really dig deep into *how* it works.  So come along with me and learn more than you ever needed to know about one of the coolest uses of just a few logic ICs there is.

To get your own Turing Machine, head on over to Thonk: https://www.thonk.co.uk/

The (many, many) slides from this video are available at: https://bit.ly/turingmachine201

00:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:47 - Usage review
00:05:28 - Shift Registers
00:07:36 - Making a repeating pattern
00:08:18 - The Pulse output
00:08:31 - The Write switch
00:09:12 - Flipped bits & the double length trick
00:10:28 - Randomness & probability
00:11:19 - Output voltage
00:14:53 - The whole picture