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Kickstarter Project Makes Spectrometers Affordable for Citizen Scientists

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Kickstarter Project Makes Spectrometers Affordable for Citizen Scientists
Summary Citizen scientists can test local bodies of water, soil and household products for contaminants with a new breed of spectrometers.
Description Spectrometers are widely used by astronomers and chemists to identify unknown materials. By making the tool more accessible, an open-research community called Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (PLOTS) is hoping to build a “Wikipedia-style library” of environmental data. Public Labs is looking for support on Kickstarter to build a kind of “Shazam for materials.” Public Labs, an open community devoted to DIY civic science, is making four types of DIY spectrometers which also available on Kickstarter.

SOURCE LINK to full article: http://mashable.com/2012/09/03/public-labs-diy-spectrometer/
Tags: citizen scientists, Crowdfunding, Crowdsource, Crowdsourcing, Kickstarter, PLOTS, Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science, Public Labs, spectrometers
Fritz Schaefer Posted by Fritz Schaefer
Sep 04, 2012 12:03 am GMT Viewed 1250 times
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