Sandbox
Experiments
This is a list of community-generated guides for experiments using your spectrometry setup (either a starter kit or a modded design) toward specific applications. Some may be more reproduced -- or reproducible -- than others. Try them out to build your skills, and help improve them by leaving comments.
Purpose | Author | Time | Difficulty | Status | Goal |
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Wavelength-calibrate with a Compact Fluorescent Blub (CFL) | @warren | 10 m | - | 150 replications Try It | X replications |
Scan sunlight | @warren | 10 m | - | 80 replications | X replications |
Compare different concentrations in a liquid sample (Beer’s Law, absorption) | @straylight | 4 h | easy | 0 replications Try it | X replications |
Extract samples (tomato) with ethanol | @cfastie | 2 h | easy | 0 replications Try it | 5 replications | 3 reviews |
Compare blends of olive and peanut oil | @ygstc | 3 h | moderate | 0 replications Try it | X replications |
Oil testing | @gretchengehrke | 2 h | moderate | 20 replications Try it | X replications |
(draft) Collect and concentrate oil sheen | @matej | 6 h | difficult | 1 replication Try it | X replications |
(requested) Determine effects of weathering on oil samples | - | - | difficult | - | - |
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Guides should include a materials list and a step-by-step construction guide with photo documentation. See an example.
Hardware Mods
Have you added to your starter kit, improved it, or redesigned it? Show others how to take it to the next level by posting a build guide here:
Title | Author | Time | Difficulty | Status (?) | Goal |
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Oil Testing Kit (fluorescence, cuvette frame) | multiple | 6 h | moderate | 0 builds Build it | 0 reviews |
“Ebert” mod | @cfastie | 4 h | easy | 0 builds | Build it | 5 builds Build it | 3 reviews |
OTK Proto 3 | @stoft | 13 h | difficult | 0 builds Build it | 0 reviews |
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Mods should include a parts list and a step-by-step construction guide with photo documentation. See an example.
Builds
There’s a lot going on in open source spectrometry -- if you’ve developed another open source design you’d like to show others how to construct, post it here!
- RamanPi
- Hackteria “drop”-style spectrometers / DIY NanoDrop on Hackteria.org
- Add yours here