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 --...
View ArticleDIY 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...
View ArticleCreating 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...
View ArticleTaking 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,...
View ArticleWhy 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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