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mjk200 "Map Exploration (15 mins): Provide a map of the community. Participants individually mark potential sensor locations based on intuition and local k..." | Read more » 3 months ago
ethaniel "I used your manual to clean my Purpleair PMS5003 sensor. Ended up messing both of them up (sensor values didn't match by a large margin) - it's alm..." | Read more » about 2 years ago
AnemometricalTwoStep "+1 One of the channels in my PurpleAir started reporting a value of 0 constantly. I suspect I’m going to have to take it apart and replace or clea..." | Read more » over 2 years ago
cfastie "The Plantower sensors require 4.5 to 5.5 volts. They work well with 5 volt Arduinos. They might not work properly with ESP8266 or ESP32 boards beca..." | Read more » almost 3 years ago
bhamster "Hi @lilymccraith, nice to see you here! Great question about alternative parts for the Simple Air Sensor. I'm not sure of the answer myself, but w..." | Read more » almost 3 years ago
lilymccraith "Can you use an ESP32 board instead of an Arduino nano? " | Read more » almost 3 years ago
eustatic "How was the sensor malfunctioning? was it reading zero? I debating whether to unpack a purpleair, but it doesn't seem to be malfunctioning in the..." | Read more » over 3 years ago
eustatic "I found this post from 2017 azchrisf Posts: 240 Copperwood WX Re: personal air pollution sensor « Reply #35 on: December 25, 2017, 11:21:08 AM..." | Read more » over 3 years ago
eustatic "I 'm having trouble with the PVC case, wondering if you've taken that apart before getting to the blue box " | Read more » over 3 years ago
asampra "I did this! Don't forget the springs. There are 3 sizes and four springs. So far the device corresponds to a duplicate system. Was reading very ..." | Read more » about 4 years ago
sarasage "Thank you so much for this detailed response! " | Read more » about 4 years ago
566303 "We are having some issues with our sensor. It does turn green around clean air, but it only turns blue around unclean air (smoke, etc.), not red or..." | Read more » about 4 years ago
justcare "Thank you for sharing useful information. " | Read more » over 4 years ago
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natevw "Nice kit! Main constructive feedback I would offer is that the cable that came ahead of the "Make" livestream event would have been hard to breadb..." | Read more » over 4 years ago
subir "Wow, thanks once again. Its been many months searching for such information from 'experts' i know locally but none were so clear and responsive. Re..." | Read more » over 4 years ago
guolivar "Great tear-down! I see that a lot of love went into the Sensiron design and I mostly agree with the comments ... the issue of the HEPA filter is m..." | Read more » over 4 years ago
subir "Hey thanks a lot! Your reply is very interesting and so are your explanations. Here's a 'tear-down' of this sensor, and with fantastic explanations..." | Read more » over 4 years ago
guolivar "First, I haven't used the SPS30 so can't comment on specifics for those sensors. However, I have many years of experience working with aerosol meas..." | Read more » over 4 years ago
mimiss "We could have more than one of those larger LED's that we're currently using, but it might be bulky. One bulb on could be green, two bulbs on could..." | Read more » over 4 years ago
warren "true! might it be harder to read a bunch of sensors near each other? depends how theyre positioned i guess... " | Read more » over 4 years ago
mimiss "Moving to something that isn't color based might also help to clear up AQI confusion " | Read more » over 4 years ago
mimiss "The cost would be a bit more, but what about a small strip of LED lights and the number of lights that turn on correlate to the concentration? Simi..." | Read more » over 4 years ago
warren "During a quick chat with @mimiss, we discussed how a clicking sound speeding up or slowing down is used by Geiger counters. Using a blinking light ..." | Read more » over 4 years ago