This is an open source community effort to develop a range of low-cost air quality monitoring and remediation tools. Welcome! **Join in by:** * Reading about goals and asking great questions * Trying (and critiquing) our community-made how-to guides * Posting your own how-to guides and mods * Building on others’ work; hack and remix the kits to refine and expand them * Submit your improvements for inclusion in an upcoming starter kit release or add-on * Serving on a Research Review Group for a 3 month period **** ##Resources [State-by-state](https://publiclab.org/wiki/state-by-state-info-sheets-on-indoor-air-quality) info sheets on indoor air quality assistance and governance (work in progress!) **** ##Activities [activities:open-air] **** ##Frequently Asked Questions about air quality [questions:air-quality] **** Also see http://publiclab.org/wiki/air-quality ##Additional media By @zengirl2: https://blog.adafruit.com/2016/08/09/how-to-purify-your-air-with-hacked-plants-publiclab-citizenscience/ ...
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| nshapiro | "Thanks, @Dave-O ! We did some side by side testing of this method next to an EPA approved method and we found these tubes to be cross contaminated ..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| imvec | "Ey @pdhixenbaugh good to hear you! The approximate cost as It's now, for version 0.1, is around 80$ depending on the Ardu (if clone or original...) " | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| pdhixenbaugh | "Hey! Amazing work! What's the approximate cost of this setup? " | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| liz | "Hey @kevinvivergy it's so great to hear from you! Here's the blue tagging assistance box that you will see when you click on "click here": ...W..." | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| kevinvivergy | "Can do @liz, any in particular you would recommend? Not familiar with the system! " | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| liz | "Hi @kevinvivergy, i have just tagged this note as an activity that others could try as well. I did this by adding the tag activity:open-air. If you..." | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| warren | "warren awards a barnstar to nshapiro for their awesome contribution! " | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| warren | "I think this is great. I'd mentioned to @liz but the question How can i know if my plant-based air filter is working? is great, and I think it'd be..." | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| kevinvivergy | "Thanks @drapoli! Yeah, when I built this thing I had not heard of Purple Air, I am really interested to learn more about it. The AQMD site has done..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| drapoli | "Great discussion and a lot of good ideas. The AQ-SPEC group (www.aqmd.gov/aq-spec) has published results on several PM sensors other than the Dylos..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| kevinvivergy | "Ahhh I see. And it looks like both ways showed that there is a big plume of particulates coming out of the rock quarry that dissipated over the rig..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "the authors did two levels of survey-- first the 6 minute 'snapshots' and then they used that to determine where to place passive monitors for long..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| kevinvivergy | "Wow that is super interesting. That would definitely cover the variation over space... but what about if the levels vary over time in each particul..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "hah! school networks are always a problem. I posted a note recently on hotspot identification, the first stage of which involved a systematic surv..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| kevinvivergy | "Thanks @mathew! Has certainly been an adventure. Only consistent issue has been school internet security protocols- they treat the Raspberry Pi as ..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "I'm revisiting your note, just want to say again how cool this is! great to see you're still up and posting data. " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| kkoerner | "LukeS good to know, thanks for testing out those pumps and posting your results! " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Great writeup, Luke! cool work. " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| LukeS | "@kkoerner, I tried a similar pump when I was researching this and it created too much turbulent/pulsed of the air stream to get a good measurement ..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| kevinvivergy | "Yeah I was thinking the same with the paint, introduces another source for pollutants. When I called the Dylos folks, they said that the device wi..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| DavidMack | "I was thinking you could expose the intake to ambient temperature in winter and by heating the enclosure you'd be warming the instrument and air in..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| kevinvivergy | "@Davidmack all good thoughts, thanks for the detailed response. -The big challenge with intake thing is that, if I understand your approach correc..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| DavidMack | "@kevinvivergy great detailed post. I'm not that familiar with the Dylos--haven't handled one--but looking at some photos maybe just cut out holes ..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| kevinvivergy | "Thanks @mathew! Yeah @jeff showed those to me, the AQICN one was pretty straight up too and I just went with theirs because I read their tutorial f..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago |