Open Air
open-air

This is an open source community effort to develop a range of low-cost air quality monitoring and remediation tools. Welcome! **Join in by:** * Reading about goals and asking great questions * Trying (and critiquing) our community-made how-to guides * Posting your own how-to guides and mods * Building on others’ work; hack and remix the kits to refine and expand them * Submit your improvements for inclusion in an upcoming starter kit release or add-on * Serving on a Research Review Group for a 3 month period **** ##Resources [State-by-state](https://publiclab.org/wiki/state-by-state-info-sheets-on-indoor-air-quality) info sheets on indoor air quality assistance and governance (work in progress!) **** ##Activities [activities:open-air] **** ##Frequently Asked Questions about air quality [questions:air-quality] **** Also see http://publiclab.org/wiki/air-quality ##Additional media By @zengirl2: https://blog.adafruit.com/2016/08/09/how-to-purify-your-air-with-hacked-plants-publiclab-citizenscience/ ...


Author Comment Last activity Moderation
JuanfraAlvarez "thanks @warren, that post (pdf of field calibrations) is the reason we changed the sampletime to 3600000ms (1h) as this guys have tested its in ho..." | Read more » almost 8 years ago
warren "Awesome post and good questions! I did find this interesting post w some possibly helpful info: https://publiclab.org/notes/Willie/04-01-2014/fie..." | Read more » almost 8 years ago
JuanfraAlvarez "Here the PM10 (and NO2) Levels this afternoon. " | Read more » almost 8 years ago
JuanfraAlvarez "If you want to check the station we are going to be using as reference, its exactly the one circled in the image, you can check it in this link htt..." | Read more » almost 8 years ago
imvec "Found out that seedstudio folks have this image in the documentation but no value... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SeeedDocument/Grove_Dust_Sen..." | Read more » almost 8 years ago
DavidMack "neat. maybe put the fan on the charcoal side and blow into the tube so you don't get infiltration from the flap in the middle? The other way I've..." | Read more » almost 8 years ago
DavidMack "one other tool you may want to consider is something like a haze cam, see http://hazecam.net/ These are typically used for wide open areas but I t..." | Read more » almost 8 years ago
gretchengehrke "Hi Patrick, I am also curious about when the fee is waived and when it's not. I know that in some counties (though I'm not sure if the county is al..." | Read more » almost 8 years ago
pdhixenbaugh "Hello Gretchen, I am curious about when the fee is waived and when it is not, as $400 a year is definitely prohibitive for citizen science on a lar..." | Read more » almost 8 years ago
xose "First approach. Now we're powering it up using a potentiometer to control the fan revolutions and begin testing. Even though the sensor in the pict..." | Read more » about 8 years ago
liz "This is so neat! " | Read more » about 8 years ago
nshapiro "Thanks, @danbeavers! I'm hoping it works well and we can develop many more applications! " | Read more » about 8 years ago
danbeavers "I think this is great! I hope H2S can be a project also. " | Read more » about 8 years ago
jfrankamp "I did see one on Amazon the other day and it was more like a mesh bag so it might even let roots go through it. I'm not sure it would do anything s..." | Read more » about 8 years ago
warren "Oh, i had another idea -- what about a water-permeable fabric drawstring bag? That'd be pretty easy to put on, but would it impede airflow? Anyhow,..." | Read more » about 8 years ago
jfrankamp "Re: water level, The commercial version has a low water sensor that shuts the fan off to let it try to survive. It won't resume air circulation unt..." | Read more » about 8 years ago
warren "Yes, i also don't know much about this, and if the airflow from the pump is enough to make it a concern... i guess any negative pressure is better ..." | Read more » about 8 years ago
jfrankamp "@warren Thanks for the barnstar! I put an answer, but not a definitive one on the question. @nshapiro When I get the next one built I'll see if yo..." | Read more » about 8 years ago
jfrankamp "Hi! Nice to digitally meet you. I asked Nick about that when I did my build because I had the same thought. The only downside he mentioned was tha..." | Read more » about 8 years ago
warren "I posted a question! https://publiclab.org/questions/warren/10-08-2016/in-the-plant-based-air-purifier-could-airflow-go-the-other-way-using-an-unmo..." | Read more » about 8 years ago
warren "warren awards a barnstar to jfrankamp for their awesome contribution! " | Read more » about 8 years ago
warren "Yes replication barnstars!! We need to refine and expand the replication features. I'd like to try a couple variations like high/low airflow, comp..." | Read more » about 8 years ago
nshapiro "Its great that your thumb was greener than expected and that the water roots were forming and growing through carbon deposits. Your question about..." | Read more » about 8 years ago
warren "warren awards a barnstar to nshapiro for their awesome contribution! " | Read more » about 8 years ago