Tool Development
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This is an overview of the development timeline for many Public Lab tools and techniques. Not all Public Lab tools follow this exact sequence, but this reflects some common steps in the development of a new environmental monitoring technique.
We may mark tools like the spectrometer or WheeStat with notices like:
This tool is a prototype; it is still under development by people like you
This tool has been thoroughly tested in the field.
Why do we develop new techniques?
Why don't we just use well-established techniques to collect data and do research?
accessibility/affordability issues, also invitation to critique existing monitoring techniques, to deconstruct "expert"/participant boundaries... etc
something about different orders in which this might happen
some suggested major or minor milestones:
Problem definition
Team building
Background research
Prototype
Initial post-it brainstorm of the history tag:
