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| mathew | "The vintage timers are probably far too massive. I'm not as worried about tampering as I am about good faith forgetfulness-- I don't always hear t..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "we can put double sided tape down on the spot-- they remove the cover and stick the tube down. we already have a ton of 1/8" double sided tape. " | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "following up on our discussion about trying to calibrate the pump without the flow meter-- could we calibrate the pump at our office, and then have..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "One confounding issue is where the card goes in library shipment. I'm looking at foam-lined reusable boxes we can package everything easily and mi..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "another nugget: 6.2 Estimating salt concentrations using the Tala kite Vertical salt-content concentration profiles can conveniently be measured b..." | | about 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "I love this piece from the Anders TALA report: 5.4 Practical advice As high school students provide an inexpensive and reliable source of kite fly..." | | about 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "we should check the accuracy of the digital thermometer-- sometimes they give 3 sig figs but actually only do 2. if we switched to a vertical orie..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "I'm seeing 2-degree accuracy on some of those strips. are they cheaper than an alcohol thermometer? do they photograph better? buy some and lets s..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "great find don! can't decide between spending $600 or going into their rather prodigious build instructions. " | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "@jefffalk @marlokeno interested in your thoughts on this plan. " | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "oohh.. its cool to find out they calibrated it by dragging it behind a car (checked for speed with radar) in still wind. That's a repeatable proce..." | | about 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "I can't stop getting excited about this and doing bits of research on it. the Charles Woodhouse patent governs the Approach Fish device. this thi..." | | about 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "really quick search for more on the TALA system found this US army evaluation of the Fish TALA: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a097082.pdf " | | about 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "sounds cool. here's the link back to the context and description of PhenoPi http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/khufkens/04-24-2015/phenopi-a-citiz..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "I just purchased that kite. unbeatable price on a functioning kite anemometer. maybe we can dissect it and replicate it. the system was patented..." | | about 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "no, I've never made such a system. I'm intensely interested in trying it though. " | | about 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Yes! Really cool kite. Here is an earlier note on anemometers with a real nice thesis on the subject. http://publiclab.org/notes/mathew/2-1-2013/..." | | about 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "In a dream universe, I'd love to see the altitude information compared against local altitude data from the USGS so that images were dropped with t..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "would a vacuum pump for food packing work? alternatively, can you pack the sensors in rice? " | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "the link issue is complicated-- I'd like to know a link is there-- but I don't necessarily want the link intruding into my text. I'll put some inf..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "We were talking about relative humidity being important (but accuracy not being a big deal) so including not just a thermometer but also a hygromet..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Alex- I understood what you were doing fine, I just wrote that comment wrong. thanks for correcting me. " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Yes! " | | over 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "the IR sensitivity is quite poor. The filter though is very easy to remove. unscrew the lens. " | Read more » | over 9 years ago |