On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Liz Barry <eba
...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> EcoHack went great this weekend! Thanks to all who came out, it was a
> great diversity of Public Lab folks and new members.
> Folks from Public Lab and the Sensemake.rs crew worked together on the air
> column monitor, including wirelessly broadcasting sensors suspended from a
> lenticular balloon with tail fin. Check out the Research Notes:
>
http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/air-column-monitor
> More reporting later once the pictures and videos are up somewhere.
> Liz
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Liz Barry <eba...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> This Friday evening, and all day Saturday and Sunday, an incredible group
>> of folks and orgs will be getting together to hack software and hardware
>> for the environment. "EcoHack" is a public, free event hosted at Parsons
>> the New School for Design -- 6 E. 16th street, 12th floor, Manhattan.
>> Details and partners listed at echacknyc.org.
>> There will be many inspiring (short) talks to hear on Friday night, and
>> fun project teams to join on Saturday. While there will be much technical
>> development of all stripes happening, technical skill is *not* required and
>> there is much to contribute by all!
>> Did we mention that we're going to be adapting 18th Century military
>> technology for stabilized balloons that orient with wind direction, with
>> the goal of lifting air quality sensors into the sky above NYC and beyond?
>> We are bringing a sewing machine for creating a lifting body case for our
>> standard spherical balloons.
>> For those of you out of town it would be awesome to hear what you think
>> generally & specifically of monitoring and broadcasting air quality, or
>> adding additional tethers around the "equator" of our standard 5'5" red
>> balloon, or any other ideas.
>> Best!
>> Liz
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