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Helium Balloons with Digital Cameras Create Grassroots Maps

I'm getting ready for day five of a two-week workshop for high schoolers at Beaver Country Day School in a suburb of Boston. The subject is my project, Grassroots Mapping, which helps teach people --...

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DIY Mappers Offer Remarkable Images of Gulf Coast Oil Spill

Last week, as the mainstream press reported on the worsening environmental and economic crisis that is the British Petroleum spill in the Gulf Coast, I and a small group of DIY mappers flew down to...

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Creating a Participatory, Open Source Map of an Entire Country

For the past few weeks I've been working from Tbilisi, Georgia -- the other Georgia -- with a fascinating organization called OpenMapsCaucasus (OMC for short), which has been hard at work creating the...

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Taking Steps Toward DIY Spectrometry, So Citizens Can Test for Pollutants

Several Public Laboratory groups have emerged around the development of new tools for measuring contamination and quantifying ecologic issues. Among them is an informal spectrometry working group,...

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Why Collaborative Development Works in a Proprietary World

Public Laboratory is made up of a diverse group of contributors, some working from their homes or garages, some from their workplaces or even university labs. What brings us together is the idea that...

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