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Following up on Deepwater...

Passing along in relation to Public Labs' and the Louisiana Bucket Brigade <[link]>'s work

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Water canary (soon to be)...

Hey - a group called Water Canary has proposed an open source spectrometer for the Knight News

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Costa Rica is suffering...

Hi dear Ecologist friends: From the beautiful and part virgin Costa Rica i wanna make a call to

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CERN Open Hardware License...

Hello all! The signup drive for the CERN Open Hardware License is going very well! Although we

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Hydrogen Balloon Mapping

Warning: this is purely experimental, can be dangerous, and we do not recommend you try it

The notes here are to document our own research in generating hydrogen for use in balloon mapping

We are developing a way to generate hydrogen from lye (caustic soda, or drain opener) and aluminum. We hope to create plastic packs which can be filled with water and connected to a balloon. The above coffee packages can hold boiling water and are stable and flat-packable.

More updates soon.