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Portable Energy Scavenging Kit
A lightweight, low-cost kit for collecting, storing, and providing energy -- off-the-grid.Design parameters: -- Modular and interchangeable kit design -- Energy sources: solar, kinetic (crank, wind,...
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Air Column Monitor
Notes and pages related to this tool can be found by searching "http://publiclaboratory.org/search/node/air-column-monitor"The air column monitor is currently in early phases of development. The April...
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Water Quality Sensor
Developed during the Water Hackathon on March 23-25 in New York City, the water quality sensor is a multipurpose tool for collecting data remotely. This tool is rapidly changing and is being used as...
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Stereo Camera
BasicsWe started developing a stereo camera set-up so that we could capture two images simultaeously -- one visible, one infrared (for more on infrared imaging see our near-infrared camera tool). The...
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Balloon Telemetry Kit
This kit was created as a means to improve the georeferencing of images captured using balloon mapping. This kit is based around the open-source Arduino mircocontroller. Utilizing a GPS receiver,...
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Kite-Balloon Hybrid
A kite balloon combines a lifting gas with active lift structures like wings to fly in all conditions. A good design may solve the common difficulty of flying in light winds, which makes balloon...
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Indoor Air Quality Mapping
PurposeThis tool is being developed to experiment with mapping indoor air quality. A Roomba--the room cleaning vacuum--is programmed to travel all around a room once it is left to roam. Therefore, it...
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Thermal photography
ApplicationsThermal imaging can be used to document heat/AC leaks from insulation gaps on a building's facade, reveal warmer ground water inflows (either fresh or chemical-laden) or "thermal pollution"...
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Balloon & Kite Mapping
How Can I Do This?Our whole toolkit is linked out below, but really fast: 1)Buy our balloon kit, assemble your own, or buy/make a kite. 2) find a good camera. 3) determine how you will trigger the...
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