Public Lab

Open hardware and software to help communities measure and analyze pollution

Technologies
javascript, ruby on rails, ruby
Topics
science, environment, community, hardware, pollution
https://publiclab.org
Open hardware and software to help communities measure and analyze pollution

Measuring pollution at low cost

Public Lab is focused on democratizing the tools and techniques of environmental science so that communities who face pollution and other environmental problems can actually use them.

We believe that low cost, open source, easy to use hardware and software can enable anyone to collect data with which to hold polluters accountable.

Sensor data and open hardware development

Public Lab software projects focus on two areas: data processing for our sensors and tools (MapKnitter.org and SpectralWorkbench.org, among others), and community collaboration and open hardware development (PublicLab.org).

Our browser-based data analysis tools make use of HTML5 features such as CSS 3d transforms for image distortion and the WebRTC webcam API for capturing spectral data, to make advanced features available to users in a powerful cross-platform, user-friendly, database-backed approach to open science tools. Our collaboration and development platform PublicLab.org enables thousands of people to publish updates and share designs for emerging environmental open hardware projects.

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2017 Program

Successful Projects

Contributor
Stella
Mentor
Jeffrey Warren, Ujitha, Stevie Lewis
Organization
Public Lab
Email Notification Overhaul
I would love to work on email notification overhaul. The project was opened in 2014 and nobody has ever since taken up the issue. Some of the...
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Contributor
Ujjwal Sharma
Mentor
Liz Barry, Jeffrey Warren, ananyo, David Days
Organization
Public Lab
Bot for Publiclab
Bot for Publiclab Being an active and welcoming open source community, Publiclab requires a chatbot for a variety of purposes, including the...
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Contributor
Ashan Priyadarshana
Mentor
Jeffrey Warren, ananyo
Organization
Public Lab
Wiki Discussion
Public lab wikis are used for collecting information, documentation and instructions on projects. And nature of wikis are that they can be edited by...
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Contributor
Mridul Nagpal
Mentor
Liz Barry, Jeffrey Warren, Stevie Lewis
Organization
Public Lab
Map of Projects
There can be a browseable map to display all of the projects of PublicLab nearby on a piece of map. There will be markers on the place of events,...
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Contributor
Chinmay Pandhare
Mentor
Jeffrey Warren, Becki C
Organization
Public Lab
Developing Image Sequencer as a library
Introduction to Image Sequencer Image Sequencer is a non-destructive image processing library built with JavaScript which creates a new image at each...
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