optical-sensor
optical-sensor


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warren "@mathew and I spent a week and got some Open Pipe Kit drivers written, including for the Shinyei. Take a look: https://github.com/jywarren/opk-shin..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
warren "Last week, @mathew and I worked on standard Open Pipe Kit drivers for a range of different optical dust sensors, to get them all feeding into http:..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
beadias "alxmjo: Sorry about the delay in replying. Here is the digikey part number for the fan we use: 563-1111-ND. We checked out your DIY set up - glad t..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
stevie "Hi Willie! The next OpenHour (http://publiclab.org/wiki/openhour) is on Air Quality and Air Quality monitoring tools. Would love to hear about this..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
alxmjo "Nice work. What sort of fan are you using to draw air across the sensor? Also, if anyone visiting this page would like to do something like this t..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
beadias "Hi Scott, Gerald and all. Thanks for all the comments! The Speck is currently not commercially available, but could be very soon. Please sign up f..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
illah "So I'll try to answer some ?'s: The Shinyei was around $15- we tried that first. The Syhitech is something like $3 in reasonable quantities. So it'..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
warren "I also found a couple places to buy it, but they don't show prices better than the listed Shenyei $15.80 or so: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/NEW-For-DSM..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
warren "Copying in a comment I just left on the DustDuino post: _So I think the sensor the Speck is using, the "Syhitech DSM501A" (http://publiclab.org/no..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
warren "Data sheet for the sensor: tmp_DSM501A_Dust_Sensor630081629.pdf " | Read more » over 10 years ago
warren "How much does the Syhitech DSM501A cost and are there plans or software for the Speck available? I know that CMU Create lab is open source which is..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
warren "Exciting to see... What's the most minimal sensor we could create though? Could we just connect the pm sensor to an openlux (http://publiclab.org/t..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
geraldmc "The Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project (SWP-EHP) is using the Speck to investigate effects of natural gas drilling in PA, they len..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
eustatic "That display is impressive. I'll be quite crass and ask: would you like to donate any of these to some folks down in Reserve and Plaquemines Paris..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
chrisbartley "Hi Chris! Thanks for the kind words. We are indeed working with a manufacturing partner for CATTFish (formerly WaterBot), but I don't know exact c..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
cfastie "Chris, Very nice device. And smart testing setups. The Explorables visualizations are fantastic. That will change the way people understand data se..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
willie "Silica monitoring is definitely a use case especially where a point source (concrete aggregate plant?) is already identified. I also think that a c..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
warren "Awesome. I'm thinking about whether this could be used for silica monitoring... looks like this can detect PM2.5 and PM10, and those are in the ran..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "Thanks for finding this, Willie! really cool. " | Read more » over 10 years ago
willie "Cool Scott. I just bought 20 for the first batch of DustDuino being put together by Matt. We'll be testing these out over the summer so there is ce..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
eustatic "thanks! watching this closely, i've purchased a few of these already. s " | Read more » over 10 years ago