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tonyc "The dowel is just a birch dowel, cheap as they come. But the design case was to have everything ship in a standard kit box, so the pendulum is buil..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "A good focal length for mapping is probably around 35 to 40mm (35 mm equiv.). That is what the old A495 had (37.6 mm). More typical small PowerShot..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
tonyc "Kits is going to start shipping the pvc length as part of this kit, but will recommend using it without any internal padding (to compensate for the..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
tonyc "I'd say a DSLR would require mounting it much lower on the pole to ensure it's at a stout enough section. In the store, we do offer additional moun..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
tonyc "That Reading Rainbow joke deserved more! :) this is an awesome rollup of ideas. " | Read more » over 8 years ago
stevie "In a set, the beta program has people to post the "sets" in a research note. I smoothed the individual scans and compiled them as a set and posted ..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "Oh, but are these in a set, or individual? Maybe auto-smooth is not working in the old sets viewer only when viewing spectra individually? " | Read more » over 8 years ago
stevie "It's the "auto smooth 10 rows below" button right? here are the two graphs:: Smoothed:: Not Smoothed: " | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "Oh, interesting. Can you make a set which compares smoothed vs. non-smoothed? In my tests, it reduced noise/spikiness, which helped discourage me f..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
stevie "Another question I had was why we "auto smooth" each sample. I saw no difference from when I did this on my sample sets from when it wasn't done (I..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "It only reads the top line of the image; this is documented but not as clearly as it should be. I just added this line to the display to help clari..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
stevie "the "20w50 A" was my first scan. Might have taken me a bit to get these consistent, but I'm not really sure why it was so different. I equalized th..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "What are the default units? I'm thinking about how the CSV will be uploaded and graphed. Looks great! " | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "Wow, your scans look really awesome and consistent! the 20x50 less so, but still good. Why do you think the 20w50 varied more? Are all of those are..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
shanlter "Thanks @Liz, last year, there's a big scandal on gutter oil in Taiwan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Taiwan_food_scandal " | Read more » over 8 years ago
nedhorning "Chris - The relationships are curvilinear but my preference is to try and figure out how to "correct" the JPEG pixel values to create a linear rel..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
LaPa "ok, i have to solve some problems of remote link of the Raspberry before taking other photos. And, of course, I have to buy a red filter because th..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "That looks like a good way to avoid passing the rubber bands out of the bottle top, especially if the shaft could slide easily so the camera can be..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "Ned, So the displayed graphs with two points are not meaningless (I found them to be helpful), but the R² values are not useful because they are a..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
liz "This is great! 20 people replicated this construction in Cuenca, Ecuador by printing out their own on heavy black paper. " | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "I love it! It looks great, and I have a Cameo too. I want to try cutting it into a plastic sheet, too! " | Read more » over 8 years ago
nedhorning "Hi Cindy - I'll start with the easy question first. The user guide can be downloaded from the plugin's GitHub repository: https://github.com/nedhor..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
stevie "@Cindy_ExCites :) This was awesome. I'm writing a workshop on calibration and scanning and this was Super helpful :). Any chance you've moved on to..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "The gadget is designed to measure soil compaction as described in the research note from which the photo was borrowed. " | Read more » over 8 years ago
mathew "I'm trying to figure out what this flat spot is, its just soo flat! I associate it with a blow out. Digging in to the spectra themselves on your ..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
timdevin "The writer links to this site in his bio page: http://farmhack.org/tools " | Read more » over 8 years ago
cindy_excites "Hi @mathew! So you mean that in all the scans above where I see the intense blue channel had overexposure? As in the post https://publiclab.org/wik..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cindy_excites "Hi! Very exciting note! Thanks for sharing. Just wondering, could you expand a little more on "When the calibration coefficients are calculated a g..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
gpenzo "Sounds interesting. You guys have any website / forum or you use this platform to keep in contact? What is that interesting hardware that guy is h..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
tonyc "the other context for that nutty housing with zip ties was for aerial use. if we flew a riffle, with the protection of the bottle/ties harness, it ..." | Read more » over 8 years ago