Public Lab Spectral Challenge, open source spectrometer

[Christopher Cprek]

These folks reached out to us on twitter. They are looking for people to host meet-ups and I thought someone from LVL1 might be interested in taking up the offer.

http://spectralchallenge.org/

"Spectral Challenge is a call to makers, hackers, and Do-It-Yourselfers worldwide to tackle real-world environmental problems with low-cost, open source spectrometry.

What if there were an affordable device you could build yourself, take into your neighborhood and use to test for heavy metals, oil contamination, or other toxics, without needing to have a PhD or access to a lab?"

http://publiclaboratory.org/tool/spectrometer

[Barton Chittenden]

Wow... this might be *exactly* what folks living in rubbertown need. There are plenty of environmental regulations against the types of pollutants released in that area, the problem is proving that a release occurred... if an EPA inspector arrives two days after the fact, most of the airbourne pollutants are long gone. Providing fast cheap iron clad proof of pollution would be huge.

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yeah alot of cool uses for this tech i could see kits selling like crazy if they are cheap enough ..
      3rd world folks worried bout toxic gases , etc,,,      

[Ben Hibben]

This looks like a really interesting and potentially a device to make real social impacts, as previously mentioned.

Blenster

[Dan Bowen]

These spectrometers do not work for gases unfortunately.

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this got me reading , thank you for the post !     
http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,163305.0.html
    http://www.screencast.com/t/waz6AdEPccsD
https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=24110

[Joshua Wilcox]

I am interested in helping host a meet up. 

[Joshua Wilcox]

Didn't know if you guys knew about this. We use it a lot in the lab. 

http://sdbs.riodb.aist.go.jp/sdbs/cgi-bin/cre_index.cgi?lang=eng

Essentially its the spectra-graph for almost every known element plus goodies. It replaces a whole section of the library. 

[Joshua Wilcox]

I should have said compound and not element. My bad.