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Public Lab Community Spotlights: 4 Projects

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 […]

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Build Yourself Some Science: Inside Public Lab’s Open Source Tools

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 […]

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How Public Lab Enables Environmental Mapping Through Collaborative Science

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, […]

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