Open Source Hardware Certifications for August 2024
Take a look at open source certifications for the month of August.
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Storm Chasers: The Maker Know-How Behind Real Twister Tech
Catching the DIY spirit of storm chasing vehicles and science gadgets during my adventures at the National Storm Chaser Summit.
Unleash The Amateurs: Lessons From The Early Days Of Radio
Guglielmo Marconi’s early experiments in wireless communication, particularly his radio transmission during the 1899 America’s Cup yacht races, had sparked broad interest in the nascent technology. The press was closely covering these developments, which helped Marconi’s popularity but also tantalized others who longed to try and re-create his tests. They got their wish when American Electrician published detailed […]
Plane Spotting (And More!): Put your spare gear to use as a feeder for community-based data exchanges
If you’ve ever used a flight-tracking app or looked up local weather on Weather Underground, you’ve likely accessed data supplied, in part, by volunteer contributors. Crowd-sourced data exchanges collect this information and share the pooled results online via interactive maps. The data ranges from radio-signal telemetry for airplanes, ships, weather balloons, or satellites, to seismic measurements, to air […]
Public Lab Community Spotlights: 4 Projects
Public Lab’s contributions come from all over the globe. Here are a few of the members that are providing tools for all to use. ROCKETS.XIA, co-founder of Mushroom Cloud Makerspace Location: Shanghai, China Our project, Knowflow, is a water quality monitoring project funded by the Green Seed foundation and Mushroom Cloud Maker Space, with contributions from Shan […]
Build Yourself Some Science: Inside Public Lab’s Open Source Tools
In the summer of 2012, I came across an event listing for a kite building workshop and the next thing I knew I was on a loading dock in Brooklyn, NY, building kites and solar balloons with two of Public Lab’s founders. Seven years later, I am Public Lab’s Open Hardware Community Manager — one […]
How Public Lab Enables Environmental Mapping Through Collaborative Science
In May 2010 I set out early one morning with a small group of concerned Gulf Coast residents, headed to meet a boat captain who would take us to the Chandeleur Islands, a chain of barrier islands in southeast Louisiana. Within minutes of leaving the harbor and navigating out into the Gulf of Mexico, […]
