barnstar:empiricism
barnstar:empiricism


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warren "Love it! Maybe we should offer these parts in the store for early experimenters? Just the stopper and some sealant? 2.8oz tubes are for <$4 on a..." | Read more » about 9 years ago
patcoyle "Nice results, real example – 8 weeks is non trivial. " | Read more » about 9 years ago
jeffalk "You probably know about the EPA site with monitoring data around the Chicago coke facilities. The EPA data could be used to compare to whatever dat..." | Read more » about 9 years ago
liz "This is incredible work!!!! You guys are awesome! " | Read more » about 9 years ago
nshapiro "@kkoerner Hi Karl! Great find! It would be fantastic if you could request a quote on these. We are planning on have a lending library of these tool..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
kkoerner "Any thoughts on using a smaller pump? If you're only trying to draw 0.3 SLPM, there are a couple of pumps (see the attached datasheet and catalog) ..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
mathew "@DavidMack Good catch! My notebook measures test 2 at 38.78, right next to 39.78 for the next test! I edited the note. thanks! You're right abou..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
DavidMack "@mathew Great work and the title is appropriate! Sometimes when I’d compare instruments head to head it would be referred to a “shoot out”—an inst..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
warren "Yeah Dan, I later realized that a draw valve at the top would be better than a push valve at the bottom, and I think it'd mean the gasket would be ..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
danbeavers "@warren How do you start the timer? I don't see a sensor for the start, only the end. Another set of electrodes appear necessary. Will that set ..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
warren "Wow, very cool. I'm thinking of what kinds of vessels could be easily adapted to a DIY version of the sort of spring-loaded bubble making frame in ..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
danbeavers "It appears you need some more ventilation or perhaps start using the remediation process. http://publiclab.org/notes/nshapiro/10-20-2014/diy-indoo..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
mathew "Just repeated this test today at 26 degrees, and temperature corrected we got 25ppb. So good news: consistency. Bad news: consistently hazardous c..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
mathew "I ran a formaldehyde test over by our shipping station, now that the flow on our lending kit is calibrated. We got 26ppb, or about 3.5x the chroni..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
mathew "Our portland office has .026ppm (26ppb) of formaldehyde when measured over by our packing and shipping area. That's over 3 times the chronic dange..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
danbeavers "Another observation: It would be good to have a check list for the measurement. For example: Verify that the humidity is above ?? and below ??..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
danbeavers "@Mathew The following is from a mechanical engineer friend of mine: Assuming you could pull a reasonably good vacuum on the orifice, you could ge..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
danbeavers "Mathew: That sounds like a mechanical engineer (which I am not) question. I SUSPECT that it will be the sum of the restrictions because of the lo..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
nshapiro "Here is a photo of the tip breaker that is on some of the analog pumps. We could also pre-score them in a standardized way to create consistent ope..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
mathew "@Danbeavers what if we put a standardized, small orifice on the broken end of the glass tube that is always smaller than a hole broken into the tub..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
danbeavers "Perhaps @Stevie could order them. " | Read more » over 9 years ago
warren "I'm arriving tomorrow -- if you could order those I'd buy them off of you when I arrive, or we could just order tomorrow night when I get in. I jus..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
danbeavers "The cheapest flow meters in the appropriate range that I could find: $18.90 http://www.ebay.com/itm/0-1-1-5L-Oxygen-Air-Flow-Meter-Gas-Flow-Meter-..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
danbeavers "Mathew: The "super simple" flow meter you linked to is what DavidMack was describing in the first post comment. That is real good to calibrate a ..." | Read more » over 9 years ago