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| lbarcelo | "How did you resolve these issues? " | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Yes, nice! In the picture, it looks like one could place a little cuvette right there in the middle and assess the turbidity :) " | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "It's been on my to-do list for ages, but I finally got around to posting the build tutorials for the basic 3 component data logger based on Promini..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| warren | "At the Somerville coworking yesterday it occurred to me how similar this is to the optical particulate monitor designs! http://publiclab.org/notes..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "This looks very promising. There are a couple of controls that might add a lot to the interpretability of your tests. 1) With the water bottle in ..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "real clever thinking! " | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| gretchengehrke | "Please post pictures in the comment section that are good example photos. I intend to put this information into a wiki page soon, and would love t..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| Markos | "Hi Mathew, You and JSummers have a huge amount of very interesting projects. I have been studying electrochemistry, but I still have a lot to lea..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "Just back from our recent fieldwork, and we've had great success with the DS18b20 temperature strings that we deployed back in March. http://edwar..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "you may want to use an existing potentiometer such as @JSummers WheeStat " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "Hi again everybody. I finally got around to posting the Cave Pearl Project on Hackaday, and realized that it turned out to be a pretty concise sum..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| Nashblackcat | "@Mathew Mat: It is great for insulation! ASAS has it cheap so you can try it out and not break the bank. http://www.sciplus.com/p/SUPERGLUE-RED-..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "@cfastie I guess I can't guarantee they didn't leak a bit, but in my experience the rice sticks to the side of the bottle if there is moisture. I'..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| Nashblackcat | "Not sure if this would be an option but Self-fusing Silicone Tape works very well for sealing even in wet and underwater conditions. " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "That's a great idea to use rice to make the bottle non-compressible. It can also keep your payload dry if a little water leaks in. For the testing ..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "i've tried heat shrink tubing in other projects-- I don't find that it provides a perfect seal and it has difficulty sticking to glues since its us..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| amysoyka | "Have you tried using heat shrink wrap yet as a sealant? Electrical tape also works as shrink wrap - just apply some stream/heat to it and it tight..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "Hi Everyone Just thought I should post a progress update on the Cave Pearl Project. We finished off 2014 with a challenging field trip that had so..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| pswigert | "Hi! I really enjoyed this thread and seeing everyone's thoughts and responses to the question. @WhiteRabbit , I was wondering if you have any updat..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| eustatic | "I will be attending! " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| stevie | "I will be attending! " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| gracecagle | "I will be attending! " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| geraldmc | "I will be attending! " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| dzonki | "its good thing for city " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago |