Public Lab Weekly Community Newsletter 5.19.2013
Stewart Long
A busy week in the community including a compelling story of grassroots mapping in Uganda and some amazing spectrometry research.
Upcoming Events
June 2 Science Hack Day NYC: balloon mapping workshop (http://publiclab.org/notes/liz/05-13-2013/science-hack-day-nyc-balloon-mapping-workshop). An NYC a local event that is part of World Science Hack Day, which coincides with both the World Science Festival and National Day of Civic Hacking.
Mapping
Incredible report on the using balloon mapping by the JuaKali Craft Village in Kampala, Uganda to temporarily stall eviction proceedings. (http://publiclab.org/notes/mlamadrid/05-15-2013/tool-for-stalling-mapping)
Report from Aerial Mapping workshop at the Triennale Design Museum. Milano, Italia (http://publiclab.org/notes/Costantino/05-15-2013/aerial-mapping-workshop-triennale-milano)
Mapping an Atlantic coastal restoration site at Folly Beach, South Carolina (http://publiclab.org/notes/adam-griffith/5-14-2013/folly-beach-sc-detailed-look-3-million-beach-restoration)
Why worry about flying your camera when you can simply stick a really long pole in the air!(http://publiclab.org/notes/mathew/05-17-2013/pole-photography)
Spectrometry
Using the Spectroscope for Analysis of Concentration (Beer's Law). Great writeup on using the PLOTS desktop spectrometer and the spectralworkbench.org to determine the concentration of an unknown sample. (http://publiclab.org/notes/straylight/05-13-2013/using-the-spectroscope-for-analysis-of-concentration-beer-s-law)
In Search of Spectrometer Measurement and Calibration (http://publiclab.org/notes/stoft/05-14-2013/in-search-of-spectrometer-measurement-and-calibration)
Notes on adding external attenuation for the spectrometer's incoming light (http://publiclab.org/notes/stoft/05-14-2013/in-search-of-spectrometer-attenuators)
Laser oil fluorescence proof of concept (http://publiclab.org/notes/warren/05-14-2013/laser-oil-fluorescence-proof-of-concept)
A preview of the DesktopSpectrometry Kit Version 2.5 (http://publiclab.org/notes/warren/05-14-2013/desktop-spectrometry-kit-v2-5-tests)