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Public Lab is an open community which collaboratively develops accessible, open source, Do-It-Yourself technologies for investigating local environmental health and justice issues.
58 CURRENT | warren |
January 30, 2017 18:49
| about 7 years ago
Have an idea for the Challenge? Learn more »PLOTS Balloon Mapping Kit – get started for $95You can always assemble your own, but for a quick start PLOTS now offers a retail kit. You supply camera & helium. Read more » PLOTS Archive maps republished on Google Maps/EarthMaps produced by members of the Public Lab community were recently republished by Google » PLOTS Spectrometer kitsPLOTS offers $40 kits to build your own optical spectrometer. Measure the spectrum of light bulbs or help develop techniques for analyzing water samples » Infrared vegetation monitoringBalloon mapping with DIY infrared cameras » Contamination monitoringBrooklyn activists document the Superfund cleanup of the Gowanus Canal and other sites of industrial contamination » Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms. Community members develop tools and write open source instructions as research notes, wiki pages, printable guides, and videos, so others know how to use these tools, and many have started local groups in their area. We also provide support through our mailing lists. This works because everyone both learns from and helps each other out, and we all contribute to the growing body of documentation as we go. Join now to take part!This community began as the Grassroots Mapping project, an effort to produce Do-It-Yourself satellite imagery with balloons and kites, most notably during the 2010 BP oil spill. We are now broadening our scope to explore new inexpensive and community-led means to measure and explore environmental and social issues. |
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57 | warren |
January 30, 2017 18:46
| about 7 years ago
Have an idea for the Challenge? Learn more »PLOTS Balloon Mapping Kit – get started for $95You can always assemble your own, but for a quick start PLOTS now offers a retail kit. You supply camera & helium. Read more » PLOTS Archive maps republished on Google Maps/EarthMaps produced by members of the Public Lab community were recently republished by Google » PLOTS Spectrometer kitsPLOTS offers $40 kits to build your own optical spectrometer. Measure the spectrum of light bulbs or help develop techniques for analyzing water samples » Infrared vegetation monitoringBalloon mapping with DIY infrared cameras » Contamination monitoringBrooklyn activists document the Superfund cleanup of the Gowanus Canal and other sites of industrial contamination » Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms. Community members develop tools and write open source instructions as research notes, wiki pages, printable guides, and videos, so others know how to use these tools, and many have started local groups in their area. We also provide support through our mailing lists. This works because everyone both learns from and helps each other out, and we all contribute to the growing body of documentation as we go. Join now to take part!This community began as the Grassroots Mapping project, an effort to produce Do-It-Yourself satellite imagery with balloons and kites, most notably during the 2010 BP oil spill. We are now broadening our scope to explore new inexpensive and community-led means to measure and explore environmental and social issues. |
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56 | warren |
January 30, 2017 18:45
| about 7 years ago
Have an idea for the Challenge? Learn more »PLOTS Balloon Mapping Kit – get started for $95You can always assemble your own, but for a quick start PLOTS now offers a retail kit. You supply camera & helium. Read more » PLOTS Archive maps republished on Google Maps/EarthMaps produced by members of the Public Lab community were recently republished by Google » PLOTS Spectrometer kitsPLOTS offers $40 kits to build your own optical spectrometer. Measure the spectrum of light bulbs or help develop techniques for analyzing water samples » Infrared vegetation monitoringBalloon mapping with DIY infrared cameras » Contamination monitoringBrooklyn activists document the Superfund cleanup of the Gowanus Canal and other sites of industrial contamination » Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms. Community members develop tools and write open source instructions as research notes, wiki pages, printable guides, and videos, so others know how to use these tools, and many have started local groups in their area. We also provide support through our mailing lists. This works because everyone both learns from and helps each other out, and we all contribute to the growing body of documentation as we go. Join now to take part!This community began as the Grassroots Mapping project, an effort to produce Do-It-Yourself satellite imagery with balloons and kites, most notably during the 2010 BP oil spill. We are now broadening our scope to explore new inexpensive and community-led means to measure and explore environmental and social issues. |
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55 | warren |
January 30, 2017 18:45
| about 7 years ago
Have an idea for the Challenge? Learn more »PLOTS Balloon Mapping Kit – get started for $95You can always assemble your own, but for a quick start PLOTS now offers a retail kit. You supply camera & helium. Read more » PLOTS Archive maps republished on Google Maps/EarthMaps produced by members of the Public Lab community were recently republished by Google » PLOTS Spectrometer kitsPLOTS offers $40 kits to build your own optical spectrometer. Measure the spectrum of light bulbs or help develop techniques for analyzing water samples » Infrared vegetation monitoringBalloon mapping with DIY infrared cameras » Contamination monitoringBrooklyn activists document the Superfund cleanup of the Gowanus Canal and other sites of industrial contamination » Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms. Community members develop tools and write open source instructions as research notes, wiki pages, printable guides, and videos, so others know how to use these tools, and many have started local groups in their area. We also provide support through our mailing lists. This works because everyone both learns from and helps each other out, and we all contribute to the growing body of documentation as we go. Join now to take part!This community began as the Grassroots Mapping project, an effort to produce Do-It-Yourself satellite imagery with balloons and kites, most notably during the 2010 BP oil spill. We are now broadening our scope to explore new inexpensive and community-led means to measure and explore environmental and social issues. |
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54 | warren |
January 30, 2017 18:31
| about 7 years ago
Have an idea for the Challenge? Learn more »PLOTS Balloon Mapping Kit – get started for $95You can always assemble your own, but for a quick start PLOTS now offers a retail kit. You supply camera & helium. Read more » PLOTS Archive maps republished on Google Maps/EarthMaps produced by members of the Public Lab community were recently republished by Google » PLOTS Spectrometer kitsPLOTS offers $40 kits to build your own optical spectrometer. Measure the spectrum of light bulbs or help develop techniques for analyzing water samples » Infrared vegetation monitoringBalloon mapping with DIY infrared cameras » Contamination monitoringBrooklyn activists document the Superfund cleanup of the Gowanus Canal and other sites of industrial contamination » Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms. Community members develop tools and write open source instructions as research notes, wiki pages, printable guides, and videos, so others know how to use these tools, and many have started local groups in their area. We also provide support through our mailing lists. This works because everyone both learns from and helps each other out, and we all contribute to the growing body of documentation as we go. Join now to take part!This community began as the Grassroots Mapping project, an effort to produce Do-It-Yourself satellite imagery with balloons and kites, most notably during the 2010 BP oil spill. We are now broadening our scope to explore new inexpensive and community-led means to measure and explore environmental and social issues. |
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53 | warren |
January 30, 2017 18:29
| about 7 years ago
Have an idea for the Challenge? Learn more »PLOTS Balloon Mapping Kit – get started for $95You can always assemble your own, but for a quick start PLOTS now offers a retail kit. You supply camera & helium. Read more » PLOTS Archive maps republished on Google Maps/EarthMaps produced by members of the Public Lab community were recently republished by Google » PLOTS Spectrometer kitsPLOTS offers $40 kits to build your own optical spectrometer. Measure the spectrum of light bulbs or help develop techniques for analyzing water samples » Infrared vegetation monitoringBalloon mapping with DIY infrared cameras » Contamination monitoringBrooklyn activists document the Superfund cleanup of the Gowanus Canal and other sites of industrial contamination » Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms. Community members develop tools and write open source instructions as research notes, wiki pages, printable guides, and videos, so others know how to use these tools, and many have started local groups in their area. We also provide support through our mailing lists. This works because everyone both learns from and helps each other out, and we all contribute to the growing body of documentation as we go. Join now to take part!This community began as the Grassroots Mapping project, an effort to produce Do-It-Yourself satellite imagery with balloons and kites, most notably during the 2010 BP oil spill. We are now broadening our scope to explore new inexpensive and community-led means to measure and explore environmental and social issues. |
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52 | warren |
March 14, 2013 20:04
| about 11 years ago
Have an idea for the Challenge? Learn more »PLOTS Balloon Mapping Kit – get started for $95You can always assemble your own, but for a quick start PLOTS now offers a retail kit. You supply camera & helium. Read more » PLOTS Archive maps republished on Google Maps/EarthMaps produced by members of the Public Lab community were recently republished by Google » PLOTS Spectrometer kitsPLOTS offers $40 kits to build your own optical spectrometer. Measure the spectrum of light bulbs or help develop techniques for analyzing water samples » Infrared vegetation monitoringBalloon mapping with DIY infrared cameras » Contamination monitoringBrooklyn activists document the Superfund cleanup of the Gowanus Canal and other sites of industrial contamination » Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms. Community members develop tools and write open source instructions as research notes, wiki pages, printable guides, and videos, so others know how to use these tools, and many have started local groups in their area. We also provide support through our mailing lists. This works because everyone both learns from and helps each other out, and we all contribute to the growing body of documentation as we go. Join now to take part!This community began as the Grassroots Mapping project, an effort to produce Do-It-Yourself satellite imagery with balloons and kites, most notably during the 2010 BP oil spill. We are now broadening our scope to explore new inexpensive and community-led means to measure and explore environmental and social issues. |
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51 | warren |
March 14, 2013 20:01
| about 11 years ago
Have an idea for the Challenge? Learn more and enter today »PLOTS Balloon Mapping Kit – get started for $95You can always assemble your own, but for a quick start PLOTS now offers a retail kit. You supply camera & helium. Read more » PLOTS Archive maps republished on Google Maps/EarthMaps produced by members of the Public Lab community were recently republished by Google » PLOTS Spectrometer kitsPLOTS offers $40 kits to build your own optical spectrometer. Measure the spectrum of light bulbs or help develop techniques for analyzing water samples » Infrared vegetation monitoringBalloon mapping with DIY infrared cameras » Contamination monitoringBrooklyn activists document the Superfund cleanup of the Gowanus Canal and other sites of industrial contamination » Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms. Community members develop tools and write open source instructions as research notes, wiki pages, printable guides, and videos, so others know how to use these tools, and many have started local groups in their area. We also provide support through our mailing lists. This works because everyone both learns from and helps each other out, and we all contribute to the growing body of documentation as we go. Join now to take part!This community began as the Grassroots Mapping project, an effort to produce Do-It-Yourself satellite imagery with balloons and kites, most notably during the 2010 BP oil spill. We are now broadening our scope to explore new inexpensive and community-led means to measure and explore environmental and social issues. |
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50 | warren |
March 14, 2013 20:00
| about 11 years ago
PLOTS Balloon Mapping Kit – get started for $95You can always assemble your own, but for a quick start PLOTS now offers a retail kit. You supply camera & helium. Read more » PLOTS Archive maps republished on Google Maps/EarthMaps produced by members of the Public Lab community were recently republished by Google » PLOTS Spectrometer kitsPLOTS offers $40 kits to build your own optical spectrometer. Measure the spectrum of light bulbs or help develop techniques for analyzing water samples » Infrared vegetation monitoringBalloon mapping with DIY infrared cameras » Contamination monitoringBrooklyn activists document the Superfund cleanup of the Gowanus Canal and other sites of industrial contamination » Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms. Community members develop tools and write open source instructions as research notes, wiki pages, printable guides, and videos, so others know how to use these tools, and many have started local groups in their area. We also provide support through our mailing lists. This works because everyone both learns from and helps each other out, and we all contribute to the growing body of documentation as we go. Join now to take part!This community began as the Grassroots Mapping project, an effort to produce Do-It-Yourself satellite imagery with balloons and kites, most notably during the 2010 BP oil spill. We are now broadening our scope to explore new inexpensive and community-led means to measure and explore environmental and social issues. |
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49 | warren |
March 14, 2013 19:53
| about 11 years ago
PLOTS Balloon Mapping Kit – get started for $95You can always assemble your own, but for a quick start PLOTS now offers a retail kit. You supply camera & helium. Read more » PLOTS Archive maps republished on Google Maps/EarthMaps produced by members of the Public Lab community were recently republished by Google » PLOTS Spectrometer kitsPLOTS offers $40 kits to build your own optical spectrometer. Measure the spectrum of light bulbs or help develop techniques for analyzing water samples » Infrared vegetation monitoringBalloon mapping with DIY infrared cameras » Contamination monitoringBrooklyn activists document the Superfund cleanup of the Gowanus Canal and other sites of industrial contamination » Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms. Community members develop tools and write open source instructions as research notes, wiki pages, printable guides, and videos, so others know how to use these tools, and many have started local groups in their area. We also provide support through our mailing lists. This works because everyone both learns from and helps each other out, and we all contribute to the growing body of documentation as we go. Join now to take part!This community began as the Grassroots Mapping project, an effort to produce Do-It-Yourself satellite imagery with balloons and kites, most notably during the 2010 BP oil spill. We are now broadening our scope to explore new inexpensive and community-led means to measure and explore environmental and social issues. |
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48 | warren |
March 14, 2013 19:52
| about 11 years ago
PLOTS Balloon Mapping Kit – get started for $95You can always assemble your own, but for a quick start PLOTS now offers a retail kit. You supply camera & helium. Read more » PLOTS Archive maps republished on Google Maps/EarthMaps produced by members of the Public Lab community were recently republished by Google » PLOTS Spectrometer kitsPLOTS offers $40 kits to build your own optical spectrometer. Measure the spectrum of light bulbs or help develop techniques for analyzing water samples » Infrared vegetation monitoringBalloon mapping with DIY infrared cameras » Contamination monitoringBrooklyn activists document the Superfund cleanup of the Gowanus Canal and other sites of industrial contamination » Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms. Community members develop tools and write open source instructions as research notes, wiki pages, printable guides, and videos, so others know how to use these tools, and many have started local groups in their area. We also provide support through our mailing lists. This works because everyone both learns from and helps each other out, and we all contribute to the growing body of documentation as we go. Join now to take part!This community began as the Grassroots Mapping project, an effort to produce Do-It-Yourself satellite imagery with balloons and kites, most notably during the 2010 BP oil spill. We are now broadening our scope to explore new inexpensive and community-led means to measure and explore environmental and social issues. |
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47 | warren |
March 14, 2013 19:47
| about 11 years ago
PLOTS Balloon Mapping Kit – get started for $95You can always assemble your own, but for a quick start PLOTS now offers a retail kit. You supply camera & helium. Read more » PLOTS Archive maps republished on Google Maps/EarthMaps produced by members of the Public Lab community were recently republished by Google » PLOTS Spectrometer kitsPLOTS offers $40 kits to build your own optical spectrometer. Measure the spectrum of light bulbs or help develop techniques for analyzing water samples » Infrared vegetation monitoringBalloon mapping with DIY infrared cameras » Contamination monitoringBrooklyn activists document the Superfund cleanup of the Gowanus Canal and other sites of industrial contamination » Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms. Community members develop tools and write open source instructions as research notes, wiki pages, printable guides, and videos, so others know how to use these tools, and many have started local groups in their area. We also provide support through our mailing lists. This works because everyone both learns from and helps each other out, and we all contribute to the growing body of documentation as we go. Join now to take part!This community began as the Grassroots Mapping project, an effort to produce Do-It-Yourself satellite imagery with balloons and kites, most notably during the 2010 BP oil spill. We are now broadening our scope to explore new inexpensive and community-led means to measure and explore environmental and social issues. |
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46 | warren |
February 08, 2013 23:59
| about 11 years ago
PLOTS Balloon Mapping Kit – get started for $95You can always assemble your own, but for a quick start PLOTS now offers a retail kit. You supply camera & helium. Read more » PLOTS Archive maps republished on Google Maps/EarthMaps produced by members of the Public Lab community were recently republished by Google » PLOTS Spectrometer kitsPLOTS offers $40 kits to build your own optical spectrometer. Measure the spectrum of light bulbs or help develop techniques for analyzing water samples » Infrared vegetation monitoringBalloon mapping with DIY infrared cameras » Contamination monitoringBrooklyn activists document the Superfund cleanup of the Gowanus Canal and other sites of industrial contamination » Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms. Community members develop tools and write open source instructions as research notes, wiki pages, printable guides, and videos, so others know how to use these tools, and many have started local groups in their area. We also provide support through our mailing lists. This works because everyone both learns from and helps each other out, and we all contribute to the growing body of documentation as we go. Join now to take part!This community began as the Grassroots Mapping project, an effort to produce Do-It-Yourself satellite imagery with balloons and kites, most notably during the 2010 BP oil spill. We are now broadening our scope to explore new inexpensive and community-led means to measure and explore environmental and social issues. |
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45 | warren |
November 10, 2012 01:01
| over 11 years ago
PLOTS Balloon Mapping Kit – get started for $95You can always assemble your own, but for a quick start PLOTS now offers a retail kit. You supply camera & helium. Read more » PLOTS Archive maps republished on Google Maps/EarthMaps produced by members of the Public Lab community were recently republished by Google » PLOTS Spectrometer kitsPLOTS offers $30 kits to build your own optical spectrometer. Measure the spectrum of light bulbs or help develop techniques for analyzing water samples » Infrared vegetation monitoringBalloon mapping with DIY infrared cameras » Contamination monitoringBrooklyn activists document the Superfund cleanup of the Gowanus Canal and other sites of industrial contamination » Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms. Community members develop tools and write open source instructions as research notes, wiki pages, printable guides, and videos, so others know how to use these tools, and many have started local groups in their area. We also provide support through our mailing lists. This works because everyone both learns from and helps each other out, and we all contribute to the growing body of documentation as we go. Join now to take part!This community began as the Grassroots Mapping project, an effort to produce Do-It-Yourself satellite imagery with balloons and kites, most notably during the 2010 BP oil spill. We are now broadening our scope to explore new inexpensive and community-led means to measure and explore environmental and social issues. |
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44 | warren |
November 10, 2012 00:56
| over 11 years ago
PLOTS Balloon Mapping Kit – get started for $95You can always assemble your own, but for a quick start PLOTS now offers a retail kit. You supply camera & helium. Read more » PLOTS Archive maps republished on Google Maps/EarthMaps produced by members of the Public Lab community were recently republished by Google » PLOTS Spectrometer kitsPLOTS offers $30 kits to build your own optical spectrometer. Measure the spectrum of light bulbs or help develop techniques for analyzing water samples » Infrared vegetation monitoringBalloon mapping with DIY infrared cameras » Contamination monitoringBrooklyn activists document the Superfund cleanup of the Gowanus Canal and other sites of industrial contamination » Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms. Community members develop tools and write open source instructions as research notes, wiki pages, printable guides, and videos, so others know how to use these tools, and many have started local groups in their area. We also provide support through our mailing lists. This works because everyone both learns from and helps each other out, and we all contribute to the growing body of documentation as we go. Join now to take part!This community began as the Grassroots Mapping project, an effort to produce Do-It-Yourself satellite imagery with balloons and kites, most notably during the 2010 BP oil spill. We are now broadening our scope to explore new inexpensive and community-led means to measure and explore environmental and social issues. |
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43 | warren |
November 10, 2012 00:55
| over 11 years ago
PLOTS Balloon Mapping Kit – get started for $95You can always assemble your own, but for a quick start PLOTS now offers a retail kit. You supply camera & helium. Read more » PLOTS Archive maps republished on Google Maps/EarthMaps produced by members of the Public Lab community were recently republished by Google » PLOTS Spectrometer kitsPLOTS offers $30 kits to build your own optical spectrometer. Measure the spectrum of light bulbs or help develop techniques for analyzing water samples » Infrared vegetation monitoringBalloon mapping with DIY infrared cameras » Contamination monitoringBrooklyn activists document the Superfund cleanup of the Gowanus Canal and other sites of industrial contamination » Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms. Community members develop tools and write open source instructions as research notes, wiki pages, printable guides, and videos, so others know how to use these tools, and many have started local groups in their area. We also provide support through our mailing lists. This works because everyone both learns from and helps each other out, and we all contribute to the growing body of documentation as we go. Join now to take part!This community began as the Grassroots Mapping project, an effort to produce Do-It-Yourself satellite imagery with balloons and kites, most notably during the 2010 BP oil spill. We are now broadening our scope to explore new inexpensive and community-led means to measure and explore environmental and social issues. 2012 Public Lab BarnraisingThe Barnraising is Public Lab's Cocodrie, Louisiana meetup, happening this Friday through Sunday -- follow along on Twitter and in the Public Lab chatrooom, where we'll be covering the event live. |
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42 | warren |
November 02, 2012 14:00
| over 11 years ago
PLOTS Balloon Mapping Kit – get started for $95You can always assemble your own, but for a quick start PLOTS now offers a retail kit. You supply camera & helium. Read more » PLOTS Archive maps republished on Google Maps/EarthMaps produced by members of the Public Lab community were recently republished by Google » PLOTS Spectrometer kitsPLOTS offers $30 kits to build your own optical spectrometer. Measure the spectrum of light bulbs or help develop techniques for analyzing water samples » Infrared vegetation monitoringBalloon mapping with DIY infrared cameras » Contamination monitoringBrooklyn activists document the Superfund cleanup of the Gowanus Canal and other sites of industrial contamination » Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms. Community members develop tools and write open source instructions as research notes, wiki pages, printable guides, and videos, so others know how to use these tools, and many have started local groups in their area. We also provide support through our mailing lists. This works because everyone both learns from and helps each other out, and we all contribute to the growing body of documentation as we go. Join now to take part!This community began as the Grassroots Mapping project, an effort to produce Do-It-Yourself satellite imagery with balloons and kites, most notably during the 2010 BP oil spill. We are now broadening our scope to explore new inexpensive and community-led means to measure and explore environmental and social issues. 2012 Public Lab BarnraisingThe Barnraising is Public Lab's Cocodrie, Louisiana meetup, happening this Friday through Sunday -- follow along on Twitter and in the Public Lab chatrooom, where we'll be covering the event live. |
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41 | warren |
November 02, 2012 13:57
| over 11 years ago
PLOTS Balloon Mapping Kit – get started for $95You can always assemble your own, but for a quick start PLOTS now offers a retail kit. You supply camera & helium. Read more » PLOTS Archive maps republished on Google Maps/EarthMaps produced by members of the Public Lab community were recently republished by Google » PLOTS Spectrometer kitsPLOTS offers $30 kits to build your own optical spectrometer. Measure the spectrum of light bulbs or help develop techniques for analyzing water samples » Infrared vegetation monitoringBalloon mapping with DIY infrared cameras » Contamination monitoringBrooklyn activists document the Superfund cleanup of the Gowanus Canal and other sites of industrial contamination » Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms. Community members develop tools and write open source instructions as research notes, wiki pages, printable guides, and videos, so others know how to use these tools, and many have started local groups in their area. We also provide support through our mailing lists. This works because everyone both learns from and helps each other out, and we all contribute to the growing body of documentation as we go. Join now to take part!This community began as the Grassroots Mapping project, an effort to produce Do-It-Yourself satellite imagery with balloons and kites, most notably during the 2010 BP oil spill. We are now broadening our scope to explore new inexpensive and community-led means to measure and explore environmental and social issues. 2012 Public Lab BarnraisingThe Barnraising is Public Lab's Cocodrie, Louisiana meetup, happening this Friday through Sunday -- follow along on Twitter and in the Public Lab chatrooom, where we'll be covering the event live. |
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40 | warren |
November 02, 2012 13:54
| over 11 years ago
PLOTS Balloon Mapping Kit – get started for $95You can always assemble your own, but for a quick start PLOTS now offers a retail kit. You supply camera & helium. Read more » PLOTS Archive maps republished on Google Maps/EarthMaps produced by members of the Public Lab community were recently republished by Google » PLOTS Spectrometer kitsPLOTS offers $30 kits to build your own optical spectrometer. Measure the spectrum of light bulbs or help develop techniques for analyzing water samples » Infrared vegetation monitoringBalloon mapping with DIY infrared cameras » Contamination monitoringBrooklyn activists document the Superfund cleanup of the Gowanus Canal and other sites of industrial contamination » Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms. Community members develop tools and write open source instructions as research notes, wiki pages, printable guides, and videos, so others know how to use these tools, and many have started local groups in their area. We also provide support through our mailing lists. This works because everyone both learns from and helps each other out, and we all contribute to the growing body of documentation as we go. Join now to take part!This community began as the Grassroots Mapping project, an effort to produce Do-It-Yourself satellite imagery with balloons and kites, most notably during the 2010 BP oil spill. We are now broadening our scope to explore new inexpensive and community-led means to measure and explore environmental and social issues. Fri-Sun: the 2012 Public Lab BarnraisingPublic Lab's Cocodrie, Louisiana meetup -- follow along on Twitter and in the Public Lab chatrooom, where we'll be covering the event live. |
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39 | warren |
October 05, 2012 18:48
| over 11 years ago
PLOTS Balloon Mapping Kit – get started for $95You can always assemble your own, but for a quick start PLOTS now offers a retail kit. You supply camera & helium. Read more » PLOTS Archive maps republished on Google Maps/EarthMaps produced by members of the Public Lab community were recently republished by Google » PLOTS Spectrometer kitsPLOTS offers $30 kits to build your own optical spectrometer. Measure the spectrum of light bulbs or help develop techniques for analyzing water samples » Infrared vegetation monitoringBalloon mapping with DIY infrared cameras » Contamination monitoringBrooklyn activists document the Superfund cleanup of the Gowanus Canal and other sites of industrial contamination » Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms. Community members develop tools and write open source instructions as research notes, wiki pages, printable guides, and videos, so others know how to use these tools, and many have started local groups in their area. We also provide support through our mailing lists. This works because everyone both learns from and helps each other out, and we all contribute to the growing body of documentation as we go. Join now to take part!This community began as the Grassroots Mapping project, an effort to produce Do-It-Yourself satellite imagery with balloons and kites, most notably during the 2010 BP oil spill. We are now broadening our scope to explore new inexpensive and community-led means to measure and explore environmental and social issues. |
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