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Research Notes

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20 weeks 2 days ago
cross-posted from PBS's IdeaLab Public Lab's balloon- and kite-based mapping approach is a new way...
Shannon
20 weeks 3 days ago
The Public Lab DIY spectrometer was featured on the Popular Mechanics website as one of nine...
MarthaV
20 weeks 3 days ago
being used by the Spectrometer software and not spectrometer webcam. How do I fix this? Martha
MarthaV
20 weeks 4 days ago
But I don't know what I need to activate on my MacBook 10.6.8 to start capturing pictures. My...
patcoyle
20 weeks 5 days ago
During break in rainy weather on Boxing Day, flew Delta Levitation around the neighborhood with A-...
mcuman
20 weeks 5 days ago
The best white light sources today are white LEDs. The following article demonstrates this. http://...
wiebew
20 weeks 5 days ago
Recently, I posted a note regarding further calibration of the spectrometer to the mailing list....
21 weeks 3 days ago
Hi, all! I'm greatly looking forward to helping out with spectrometry. I'm using the kit, and...
cfastie
21 weeks 3 days ago
A Merry Public Lab Christmas to All!
eustatic
21 weeks 4 days ago
Chalmette is east of New Orleans, and east of the lower 9th ward. there are a couple of refineries...
knygaard
22 weeks 21 hours ago
The Kukuiula Club is a luxury community in Koloa, Kauai. Their relatively new development was...
Shannon
22 weeks 23 hours ago
Happily, the world did not come to an end today and so we're able to write you one last newsletter...
warren
22 weeks 2 days ago
All but 64 of the Desktop Spectrometry Kits are now shipped, and from the buzz on Twitter and the...
Babu
22 weeks 3 days ago
Hi all, warm Greetings I am new in NIR photography so i have some questions regarding the white...
22 weeks 3 days ago
A follow up on an earlier Research Post on Gowanus Canal sewer levels photographed by Grassroots...
ckmurt
22 weeks 3 days ago
My calibration did not produce sharp lines and I was told the slit may be to wide. These are the...
22 weeks 4 days ago
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