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DustDuino Cookbook: Recipes for Configuring Hardware

Willie Shubert — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 20:15:56 +0000

The DustDuino is a customization of Arduino designed to help makers create low-power, highly customizable sensor projects. By basing the system on Arduino, the DustDuino can use “out of the box” block of code to program the device to do a number of tasks. Those blocks of code are known as libraries. For more information and background on Arduino, […]

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DIY air pollution monitoring with DustDuino: Arduino Uno Edition

Matthew Schroyer — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 20:18:05 +0000

Why Focus on Particulate Matter? The World Health Organization (WHO) took a major step by announcing that air pollution is carcinogenic to humans.WHO also announced they are considering particulate matter, a major component of indoor and outdoor air pollution, as carcinogenic to humans as well. International Agency for Research on Cancer announced today: outdoor #airpollution is leading […]

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Field Papers: Make Digital maps with a Pen and Paper

Emir Hartato — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 17:36:05 +0000

What are Field Papers? As this set of tutorials demonstrates, there are many ways to collect data for use in mapping. For most circumstances a smartphone or a GPS unit will provide connectivity in even the remotest of places but each has its limits. This is where field papers can fill the gaps. Using simple […]

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FrontlineSMS: How to Create a Mobile Newsroom for Disaster Reporting

Imelda Albaño — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 16:50:44 +0000

Communicating During Crisis The Philippines is an island nation of more than 100 million people living at the doorstep of climate change. Each year Filipinos face recurring natural disaster; enduring typhoons, severe drought, floods, and coastal erosion. As journalists living in a country where disaster is a fact of life, the Philippine Network of Environmental Journalists (which […]

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OpenStreetMap editing using ID

Mikel Maron — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 01:21:12 +0000

You can easily edit the OpenStreetMap base map that you find at www.openstreetmap.org. And while doing it you will become part of the community of thousands of mappers worldwide who are creating the map together. Introduction What if your area isn’t mapped? Or you want to add a feature, like a waterway or lake? You can […]

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Balloon Mapping: How to make your low-flying satellite

Willie Shubert — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:10:57 +0000

Balloon mapping provides individuals or groups with a low-cost means to create a running record of events in map form, one that is temporally accurate and easy to share. What is Balloon Mapping? Today, aerial imagery—pictures that are taken from above the Earth’s surface—are typically made by satellites and planes. But in the days before […]

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Using Ushahidi to Map Reports on Solid Waste

Erica Hagen — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 21:45:06 +0000

Ushahidi is a great open-source software for presenting many kinds of information on a map. You can set up an Ushahidi site using Crowdmap which will help you tell a story by bringing together a map with the information and reports you choose to include. Introduction Ushahidi is a great open-source software for presenting many kinds of […]

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