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pdhixenbaugh "I'm intrigued by the speaker resistance - can that be measured with a multimeter - and what are the rules of thumb for not burning out the timer? " | Read more » over 8 years ago
kanarinka "Thanks @warren! @kgradow1 - this is a great suggestion for improvement as I've also had that happen. How about @akshaya and I will make a digikey s..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
kgradow1 "This is a great overview! One suggested edit: Include an explanation of how component variability might impact the circuit. I've tried to build th..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "Hi, I reposted this from https://publiclab.org/wiki/coqui-a-simple-water-conductivity-sensor -- to make it into an activity that can be featured in..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
stoft "@abdul, I'd not consider superglue because of it's negative properties for human skin -- a safety hazard. Remember, the kits are sold for education..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "Thanks, Dave -- I did a degree in architecture and so spent many a sleepless night gluing wood things together -- and I agree that not all glue is ..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
abdul "Would superglue be acceptable? The justification of superglue is outlined below: -It dries quickly -It comes already in small containers -It is..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
stoft "The size of the 'square' parts is close to 0.5-in but the "ideal" value is set by the "height" of the camera lens after the camera is mounted. The ..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "Also, Dave -- a question: if people work to reproduce this, what are (in your opinion) the tolerances here? Could people make this with a different..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
stoft "Except ..... there is a real advantage of using the "yellow" "woodworkers glue", rather than white glue. "White glue" seems to be sold in different..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "I love this. I think white glue (EVA, like Elmers) is probably plenty good for this purpose, and most people will have some. But @abdul, I wonder i..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "I think the main challenges are: whether moving/tugging the cable moves the webcam at all whether twisting the spectrometer (now that it's not as..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "So just above the tag box, there's a little "quiz" to add details -- fill that out and it'll auto-tag your post appropriately! You can enter custom..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "From my laptop to a neighboring desktop, with the volume turned up. It worked better when I held it up to the microphone a bit. " | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "OMG that totally worked!!! Over open air too -- no cable! " | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "Don, could you open a PR of your graph example page so we can include it in the WebJack demos? PUHLEEEEEEZZEEEEEEE?????? " | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "That is the coolest. Here's the video embedded! I wonder if we could read the data off the audio track of the video... " | Read more » over 8 years ago
rmeister "@donblair - Thanks Don, that demo looks awesome! Happy to see that WebJack is in use :) I gladly try to answer questions if there are any issues w..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
abdul "Well, I couldn't quite see how to edit the activity grid, but I'd put the stats as ready for testing, the difficult as very easy (assuming a scale ..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
abdul "Yes I'll add details " | Read more » over 8 years ago
donblair "@rmeister -- WebJack is a lovely piece of work! I connected a thermistor to a Pro Mini, used the voltage divider and capacitor setup recommended a..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "Also, see my comment here: https://publiclab.org/notes/gretchengehrke/09-02-2016/activity-categories#c15329 This might make it unnecessary to chan..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "Hi Chris - I want to think about how we can help authors get higher visibility and, later, higher replication counts, and I think how posts show up..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
gretchengehrke "Ooh -- I like @cfastie's idea of a subtitle section! " | Read more » over 8 years ago