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| amysoyka | "Hey there @markwh, This video explains the process quite well: http://youtu.be/kUR6_bQLU-E I use a toaster oven also - just be careful that you d..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "One of my early underwater housing designs had only three parts. A PVC endcap, a short length of pipe, and a rubber end cap. This came to about$10 ..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| markwh | "@amysoyka, do you have a reference or a research note for this? I'm wondering how clean and simple that would be. Any specific applications to wate..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| amysoyka | "You can melt and mould milk bottle plastic if you heat it up. " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| DavidMack | "PVC pipe works well. What are you using exactly--can you post a photo? For PVC, you can choose whatever diameter pipe you need then glue a cap on..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| JSummers | "Hi Sean, Sorry about the delay in getting back to you. I was out of town. I sent Daniel an email asking him for more info and I will look into thi..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "I see the frog in those traces.... nice! " | | over 9 years ago | |||
| sg297 | "Hi Jack, I am also trying to connect a Raspberry Pi to the Wheestat with the TM4C123G launchpad. Could you (or Daniel) add an extra bit to the Lin..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| warren | "Great to hear! Do you have any photos or videos to post? " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "It's been a while so I thought I would post a project update to Public Lab 1) We had another successful fieldwork season, marking the deployment o..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| labberos | "thats really amazing :) gj girls! " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Eelgrass beds in New England have been traditionally mapped using normal color aerial photographs. Apparently the tricks of the trade are to have m..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| btbonval | "Part of the issue here would be the IR reflectance of the water's surface (due to the index of refraction of the water/air boundary), which I under..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| amysoyka | "I've been waiting for the schematics of this to be released this for aaages... It looks awesome!...when is public labs going to start selling them? " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| kanarinka | "Nice work guys. I'm glad that puddles will be represented in our samples :D " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| caseyrcampbell327 | "I believe Bridget is posting it this afternoon! " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| kanarinka | "Nice work! I think your photos for Christian Science and Copley Square are reversed btw " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| kanarinka | "Good research note. Do you have a third sample? " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| kanarinka | "Great research note you two. Do you have a third sample? " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| kelso12 | "awesome photo dude ;D " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| JSummers | "Hi Mathew, My guess it that this is going to be a processing issue. My next guess is that there is a problem on line 13 of the Dropdown_Lists tab..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| JSummers | "Ok. Can you see the port from Energia? That will tell us whether it is a mac / energia issue or a mac / processing issue. Jack " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Jack, I'm not able to get the Wheestat's port to recogize on a mac-- Processing won't recognize the USB Port-- I can only select bluetooth. " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Oh, toilet tank analogy is great! @cversek was talking at LEAFFEST about how, in the water <--> electricity analogy, the only sticking point..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago |