SSRN-Music and the Market: Song and Stock Volatility by Philip Maymin… via Waxy & Kedrosky…. Philip writes- I compare the annual average beat variance of the songs in the US Billboard Top 100 since its inception in 1958 through 2007 to the standard deviation of returns of the S&P 500 for the same year and […]
HE Zhao wrote in to tell us about an open source Wii peripheral drum-kit project he’s been working on: I have recently developed Wii Drum High, a software integrates Wiimote, Nunchuk and Wii Balance Board to stimulate a complete drum set. Different gestures and joystick buttons result in correspondent drum sounds. I recorded some videos […]
Zen Crafting shares a tutorial for making these modern-looking star decorations from origami paper.
Paul writes – Structure Synth is an application for creating complex three-dimensional structures using simple rule sets. Using a few line of code, with statements condensed to a few characters, iterated multiforms can be generated consisting of thousands of individual objects. Developed by Mikael Hvidtfeldt Christensen, this free software is a direct attempt to produce […]
The Instructables book has a nice little write up in the NYTimes! Penelope Green writes- The duct tape roses I made over Thanksgiving were fetching (until they were gummed by the cat), but post-turkey lethargy prevented me from digging into the meatiest projects in “The Best of Instructables†(Make: Books; $34.99). One example: the concrete […]
Meet Dan! He’s our associate publisher at MAKE and Magazine.org just did an interview with him – Dan Woods is Associate Publisher for O’Reilly Media’s Maker Media Division, which includes MAKE: Magazine, makezine.com,book publishing unit MAKE: Books, e-tail site MakerShed.com, and Maker Faire, a live event targeting armchair MacGyvers and Ben Franklins. Before taking on […]
Mad clockmaker Roger Wood sent me this lovely, annotated photograph of his Chronulator-based clock that I wrote about here. He said response has been great and he plans to make a few more in the new year.
