It's been a busy week! A wide range of new research notes have gone up, the
air column monitoring project was launched and there are a number of new
additions to the website. Below are a couple of highlights from Public Lab
for this week:
1.* NYC - EcoHack on Earth Day Weekend* was a smashing, stormy success at
Parsons the New School for Design. Collaborating with the Sensemake.rs
community (creators of Air Quality Egg) resulted in a sensor pack
wirelessly transmitting 6 variables from balloon to ground. Check out
the research
notes <http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/air-column-monitor>. Next steps
will be to coordinate with data visualizers and test the lenticular balloon
case + “tail fin” combo.
2. Public Lab community members made *two new batches of H2S test strips
for lab and field testing. *This is the first batch to be sent out to
Colorado for field testing of the cool tent
container<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/megan/4-2-2012/container-testing-ph...>that
can be shipped flat.
3.* The infrared camera assembly/use documentation
collaboration<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/cfastie/4-15-2012/visibleir-mapping...>is
starting this week.
* The Kickstarter dual camera kits (visible and infrared) shipped this week
and there is an ongoing collaborative documentation project going. A couple
of key research notes on this topic so far:
http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/ndvi-plots-ir-camera-kit and
http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/dual-camera-kit-guide.
4. *The "plots-boston" <http://groups.google.com/group/plots-boston?pli=1>*
*list has been launched*. This list will be used* *for coordinating local
PLOTS events in the Boston area.
5.* Invitations to PublicLaboratory.org:* you can now invite others to
PLOTS<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/warren/4-17-2012/inviting-others-jo...>,
if you think they’d be an asset to the community or if they could leverage
some of our expertise (but of course invites are not required to join).
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6.* NYC is investigating shared workspace, *please email
l...@publiclaboratory.org if you are interested in renting with the group.
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7.* iLAB fellowship of dance+ecology* is kicking off this week. Please get
in touch if you are interested in exploring choreography as part of flying
aerial research
equipment<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/liz/4-27-2012/ilab-fellowship-award>or
other embodied research approaches.
8. There was a three-fold *balloon aerial research workshop held on lower
Manhattan rooftop. *Hosted by Open Plans on their roof terrace, a camera
with intervalometer, an air quality sensor pack from a #sensemakers
collaboration, and a 4G phone streaming video to
UStream<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/liz/4-27-2012/ustream-aerial-video>were
each hoisted from the 13th floor and controlled withtwo
tethers<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/liz/4-27-2012/multiple-tethers-balloon>.
9. *NYC event:* iSPY with fluxfactory.org will host live aerial video
streaming in Central Park this Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 at Tavern on the
Green, Central Park, Manahttan, 6pm-7pm.
10. *The PLOTS Archive* has reached over 100
maps<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/gonzoearth/4-25-2012/100-maps>!
11. *There is a new mailing list overview
page<http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/mailing-lists>.
*Find out about the different lists available to participate in and how
they are currently structured.
12. *Randomly selected research notes* to highlight for this last week:
Tiny remote control
<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/cfastie/4-22-2012/tiny-remote-control>(posted
by Chris Fastie)
Light aircraft aerial mapping
set-up<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/gonzoearth/4-23-2012/light-aircraft...>(posted
by Stewart Long)
Air Quality Egg sensor-box for realtime air column
monitoring<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/edborden/4-21-2012/airqualityegg-se...>(posted
by Ed Borden)
University of Texas-Austin map
<http://publiclaboratory.org/map/university-texas-austin-texas/2012-03-13>
370nm UV detection of Corexit-dispersed oil on Gulf Coast beaches
<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/eustatic/4-20-2012/370nm-uv-detecti...>(posted
by Eustatic)
Balloon kite design and
prototypes<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/valerie/4-21-2012/balloon-kite-desi...>(posted
by Valerie)
Please email with any questions and if you'd like to have something
included in the newsletter next week, please send it by 5pm Thursday. Best,
Shannon
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Shannon Dosemagen
Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science
504.239.4642
publiclaboratory.org
