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The creator of GrassrootsMapping.org and co-founder and Research Director for Public Lab, Jeffrey Warren designs mapping and community science tools and professionally flies balloons and kites. Notable software he has created include the vector-mapping framework Cartagen and orthorectification tool MapKnitter, as well as open spectral database and toolkit Spectral Workbench.
He served from 2015-17 as Vice President of the board of the Open Source Hardware Association, is on the board (since 2014) of alternative education program Parts and Crafts in Somerville MA, and an advocate of open source software, hardware, and data. He co-founded Vestal Design, a graphic/interaction design firm in 2004, and directed the Cut&Paste Labs project, a year-long series of workshops on open source tools and web design in 2006-7 with Lima designer Diego Rotalde.
Jeff holds an MS from MIT and a BA in Architecture from Yale University, and spent much of that time working with artist/technologist Natalie Jeremijenko, building robotic dogs and stuff. To find out more, visit Unterbahn.com.
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Hello, all! The past few months has been dominated by our twin Summer of Code (SoC) programs and ...
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Hi, everybody -- I just wanted to offer a huge, heartfelt THANKS for this summer. :raised_hands:...
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When kite mapping with mini cameras, #gopro or #mobius cameras, I like to use a ...
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This tutorial shows how to use Image Sequencer to take a...
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Last Friday a few of us in Providence gathered to fly kites and take kite photos, at the [10,000 ...
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Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science: User interface designer/web developer Start D...
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Since 2011, Public Lab community members around the world have been building an...
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Map-making with your aerial photos is an important part of balloon or kite mapping. It's like mak...
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This quarter has been a busy one as Summer of Code has begun, new community leaders h...
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This tutorial shows how to use Image Sequencer to take two DIY multispectral ...
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I've been working with the new Image Sequencer, a Public Lab project, to try ...
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We've started shipping some really cheap new webcams with our introductory kits -- the imagery is...
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:tada::tada::tada::tada::tada::tada::tada::tada::tada: We're happy to announce we're accepting 9...
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In a perfect world, our Raspberry Pi Zero W would hook up to the camera, connect to the wifi, and...
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We're working on simpler and cheaper ways to make good DIY microscopes, working from this @partsa...
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_(Reposted from the [Rosco company blog](http://www.rosco.com/spectrum/index.php/2018/03/rosco-fi...
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Hi all, I'm preparing for a talk with Liz Barry ( @liz) at LibrePlanet 2018 on Sunday at It'll l...
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Documentation can be tough at a big, busy event like our Barnraising! We see this activity as a l...
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Update! See [this post for our accepted proposals](https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/04-23-201...
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(This is a draft!) I made a simple p5js sketch (read below) to live sensor data off of an Arduino...
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We've had a pretty wild month in our software contributor community. After an [already busy D...
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I spent today at the CivilServant summit, where Nathan Matias and oth...
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For the first time in a while, we've updated MapKnitter.org -- after the...
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Thanks to the 357 supporters of our recent Kickstarter campaign, the Community Microscope will so...
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A microscope at its core consists of 4 things being held in place in relationship to each other...
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Public Lab will be hosting a community science space at the San Francisco Maker Faire this coming...
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[<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VOoHsHhIECU" allowfullscreen="" width="560" height="3...
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The Raspberry Pi Zero is an ama...
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Testimonial: A farmer in Hixton Wisconsin stood up in front of the group and began to tell hi...
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Lighting is conceptually relatively straightforward but extremely important for microscopy. We ...
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For a full overview of this project, go to [Raspberry Pi Microscope Build](https://docs.google....
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NOTE: This is the least-well-developed part of the process and is a complicated enough project t...
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Our goal is to look at dust particles and attempt to identify them by size and shape. In order ...
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This is the least-well-developed part of the process and is a complicated enough project that i...
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The microscope stage holds the optics, the sensor, and the sample together in a fixed geometric...
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Quick build instructions for [Hackteria Remix Raspberry Pi Microscope](https://publiclab.org/note...
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 as part of Google Summer of C...
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Attempting a Hotspot survey in New Auburn, WI with: @Stevie, @Gretchen, @Warren, @marlokeno, Jonn...
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So you've just opened your Infragram Point & Shoot! You'll notic...
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These instructions will guide you through the assembly process of the foldable paper spectromet...
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These instructions will guide you through the assembly process of the desktop spectrometer. Th...
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With an environmental and environmental health focus, many people coming to Public Lab may be loo...
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_above: sketch of figuring out how to organize "air" into a research area, and which methods are ...
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We've been reading about ASTM D7520, or the **Standa...
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View these maps at MapKnitter.org »
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We created AirWatchBayArea.org to give residents of Richmond, CA, a...
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In the "Meaning from Monitoring" project, we tried to take real-time measurements of toxic gases ...
by jiteovien 5 days ago | 1 | 75 views | 1
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a pretty good [powerpoint](https://www.epa.gov/site...
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Know the history of the region. _This is something that community-led crisis responders say...
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To do this activity you do not need to actually have a PurpleAir. ** ** On the [Purpl...
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The Public Lab Providence office has just setup our first PurpleAir...
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This Northeast regional Barnraising was like no other because it started with people exchanging s...
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Bought rebuild Inspire 1 quad copter and bought modded camera for NDVI. The information that cam...
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Use the coqui as a way to teach kids about how they can find their own scientific methods to ...
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This note is the second to look at updating the Wheetrometer spectrometer. The original Wheet...
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Introduction: This note describes a general computer vision approach for microscopic ...
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I am Sourav Sahoo and I am currently pursuing my BTech in Computer Science from NIT Hamirpur. I...
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Finally, the GSoC coding period is coming to an end as I finish up my project. In this post I aim...
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Student: Sidharth Bansal Github: [SidharthBans...
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Pascagoula, Mississippi hosts 12 facilities that report to the federal Toxics Release Inventory, ...
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Hello All! Back in 2010 Stacy Kuznetsov crated an amazing visual tool for air quality awareness:...
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I am working with a community of residents that may have been impacted by the pollutant PFOA/S fr...
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Hello! I posted a couple of weeks ago about the Low Cost Air Quality Sensor Calibration project t...
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The kits initiative has had a busy spring and summer, and are reviving our monthly Kits report to...
by MaggPi about 1 month ago | 2 | 121 views | 3
This note proposes a Light Emitting Diode (LED) simulator that would assist in the collection and...
by jaksch about 1 month ago | 4 | 161 views | 2
This is a rough idea for a project I'll be working on during a hacker camp in two weeks. I want t...
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Model U12-008 is a reliable data logger for outdoor environments that can be connected to up to f...
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I know there are different ways to use color maps depending on the situation but it would be help...
warren was awarded the Basic Barnstar by clauds for their work published in Announcing a Public Lab booklet: DIY Oil Testing.
warren was awarded the Basic Barnstar by dhaffnersr for their work published in Preliminary LED and isopropyl alcohol solvent tests for oil fluorescence analysis.
warren was awarded the Basic Barnstar by dan969 for their work published in Has anyone tried a dashboard camera for timelapse or aerial mapping?.
warren was awarded the Basic Barnstar by stacyfaratan for their work published in Looking for input on a simplified "subscribe" design for PublicLab.org posts.
warren was awarded the Photo Documentation Barnstar by liz for their work published in Issues 1-3 of The Barnraiser.
warren was awarded the Photo Documentation Barnstar by dhaffnersr for their work published in Ongoing design of compact cuvette frame.
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