A major goal of Public Laboratory is to produce simple and easy guides to construct many of our low-cost tools. Here are some of the illustrated guides, tutorials, and other supporting materials we've put together so far:

##Illustrated Guides##

* http://grassrootsmapping.org/guide - Our first illustrated guide attempts to thoroughly explain how to construct and use a [balloon mapping](/tool/balloon-mapping) kit.
* [Grassroots Mapping Guide 2.0](https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AVY4Tg28DhosZGM0OHd6M2RfMjU4ZzY2cmI4Z3I&hl=en_US), ([1mb pdf](https://publiclab.org/sites/default/files/Grassroots_Mapping_English_2_0.pdf)) - This improved version of the guide is more concise (prints on 4 pages, or a single 11x17 sheet, double sided) and has been updated with more recent, simpler, more reliable techniques. It is available for anyone to edit or modify as a Google Doc. See below for translations.

* Making a [spectrometer](/tool/spectrometer): 
  * [plots-spectrometer-guide.pdf](http://publiclaboratory.org/downloads/plots-spectrometer-guide.pdf) (17.4mb)
  * [plots-spectrometer-guide-small.pdf](http://publiclaboratory.org/downloads/plots-spectrometer-guide-small.pdf) (4.3kb)
  * [Parts and Crafts](http://partsandcrafts.org/) revised spectrometry booklet (fantastic!): http://archive.publiclaboratory.org/download/partsandcrafts-spectrometer-guide.pdf (21mb, print quality)

##In progress##

We're constantly improving and exploring new ways of documenting and disseminating our designs. Here are some prototypes and planning pages:

* [T-shirt guide](/wiki/t-shirt-guide) - A t-shirt with instructions for balloon mapping printed on it.

Translations:

* Arabic: https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AVY4Tg28DhosZGM0OHd6M2RfMjU5Y3o2NXEzZG0&hl=en_US