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 […]
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, […]
Make: vol. 71 is on its way to mailboxes right now, and inside the issue we have a wonderful profile of community science advocacy group Public Lab, including a tear-out insert of their paper spectroscope. To further augment the article and help guide people into building and using open-source tools to measure environmental conditions and […]
Low-cost advanced technologies, especially the open source hardware & software, enable almost everyone to get involved to show support for environmental protection. To celebrate Earth Day 2018, Seeed and hackster.io have launched an Earth Day contest to encourage the community to make & share projects that benefit the planet! The contest will give away 15 awesome […]
Did you know that a jet of water hitting a glass surface with create an arc of plasma?
Create a digital bird feeder that can monitor weather and bird activity.
Fun projects to spark your ideas for this year’s science fair
