Citizen Science and Exploration: Who Makes the Rules?
The tools for citizen science and exploration are getting good. As they continue to empower amateurs, who makes the rules on what can be done?
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Blog from the Sea of Cortez: Useful Science?
In what ways can citizen explorers be useful for science? The tools are getting better, but the methods and techniques aren’t as clear.
Makers in Space
Planetary Resources is Kickstarting a project to send a satellite into orbit that backers will be able to direct themselves.
Movers and Makers: Kevin Fitzpatrick
Kevin Fitzpatrick both lives and works in his Transit Connect for nearly a quarter of the year. He has extensively modified his vehicle to provide office space, sleeping quarters, storage for gear, a mini-fridge, and even a sink with gray and potable water.
RasPi and Arduino-Controlled Weather Station
José Amores, also known as UC4FUN, built this cool weather station that features sensors and a RTC module plugged into an Arduino, connected via XBee to a Raspberry Pi with an SD card storing data and a wifi connection to the Internet, allowing José to publish the data online. [via Embedded Projects]
Raspberry Pi in the Sky!
PublicLaboratory is a fantastic citizen scientist organization with really useful projects like DIY spectrometers (for finding out what’s really in stuff) and aerial mapping for monitoring of oil spills, landfills, etc. They’ve done some fantastic work using the continuous shooting mode of consumer cameras, including converting them to near infrared. The problem is that there is […]
Science Hack Day!
Science Hack Day is underway in San Francisco. The weekend hackathon focuses on citizen science projects.
