Month: December 2010

Contest: The curiosity-driven life. Your foible could drive the next Citizen Science study!

Contest: The curiosity-driven life. Your foible could drive the next Citizen Science study!

Have you ever wanted to take a closer look at an aspect of life – such as how diet effects exercise, how exercise effects cognition, how sleep effects your work… Any field of study is free game. And, if you are reading this, you are qualified to submit an entry! Submit questions and entries to eri@genomera.com. For more details, see here. You have until December 15th.

Your Comments

Your Comments

And we’re back with our twenty-fourth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. Bob Alexander built a $20 spectrograph, and wrote in to share his results: I went ahead and made one of these (actually two – after the first, I wanted […]

Atari paddle synth

Atari paddle synth

From the MAKE Flickr pool: This slick synth built inside an Atari game paddle, one of many cool synths Michael Rucci has created. This is a square-wave generator with a pulsing effect, hand built into an Atari paddle controller. When you press the trigger it plays the pitch controlled by the large original knob. When […]