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| warren | "OK, I added a couple more features -- one which bisects a graph with a vertical line where the area of the graph is equally divided -- what's that ..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| warren | "You're right - it's a pretty high baseline. Something like 10%, no? I believe this is noise, but some may be related to infrared reflectivity insid..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| ttaylor | "Warren, it's really exciting to see this sort of technology diffusing out of academia. All of your question are interesting, here are a few more th..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| warren | "Another draft of the paper research note: I also made a Post-It notepad of these on Zazzle.com: http://www.zazzle.com/public_lab_paper_research..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| amysoyka | "@matthew, I tried that. It drove me crazy, trying to cut the slit's varying distances apart. (Imm, 2mm, 5mm...etc) Also, I found that I kept getti..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "nice! @amysoyka. We're also thinking about cutting a bunch so they could be switched in and out at known widths. " | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| amysoyka | " " | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| amysoyka | "slidey in, slidey out " | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| amysoyka | "Warren, you might like this... It is a resizeable slit. It works like a zoom/focus on a camera " | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| stevie | "Draft event guide posted: http://publiclab.org/notes/stevie/08-13-2014/working-oil-testing-event-guide " | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| stevie | "I agree! In this event, we were testing out a number of different bottle options, trying to source the best ones. (you can see some of the ones we..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| bsugar | "hmmm...well, this presents a dilemma in that Public Lab will be the only ones with the purchasing power to buy them inexpensively, but people will ..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| warren | "The orig bottles were basically square, but not very precise -- sort of that wavy crude surface from molded glass. But I have a sense that there's ..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| bsugar | "regarding the new bottles, in my search to find alternatives, it seems like even the squarest of bottles on the outside have some curvature on the ..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| bsugar | "@stevie, it would be very helpful. I think all and all this makes an excellent framework for any workshop, in particular the part where you have t..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| warren | "I like the idea that if there are 4 tables, four different organizers can sort of "staff" the tables, focusing on the parts they know best. " | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| stevie | "hey all, Great thread. Scott thanks for writing up the materials list. Also, I'll add we had sticky notes and markers on each table with a post-it ..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| warren | "Unexpected yes -- it was for some reason much harder to get light into the webcam! But very easy on a smartphone. We're working a bit on this probl..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| warren | "Thank you so much for posting this!!!!! Very helpful even just on the basis of showing how to change image capture mode. I haven't tried these test..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| eustatic | "1) yes 2) there's not enough light, so perhaps angling the laser a certain way, or shining it through at the right level would help, so that the ca..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| bsugar | "Follow up: 1) Does the reflective material go in the back of the bottle? 2) By laser-camera alignment, so you mean that the horizontal beam from ..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| eustatic | "unsure what you are referring to in that link but it was like this one but with the lid closed and with reflective material added. Jeff's phone..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| bsugar | "when you write that: "We struggled a great deal with getting enough fluorescent light from the sample to register on the webcams..." were you using..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| eustatic | "I think Stevie asked people to bring laptops we had 3-4 working desktop spec, set up at tables 3 and 4 (one laptop wouldn't work) jeff's phone spe..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago |