CITIZEN SCIENCE: SENSORS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

AMY SCHMITZ WEISS | @DIGITALAMYSW LILY BUI | @DANGERBUI JUN YAMADERA | @JUNYAMADERA

#SXSW | #SENSORJOURNO

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CITIZEN “BEN” SCIENCE

citizen scientists are people who participate in the collection of scientific data who don’t necessarily have a scientific background or expertise, but enjoy being a part of process

CITIZEN SCIENCE

Something that reacts predictably to its environment and can measure some aspect of it.

SENSOR

source: http://www.buzinga.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Sensor-growth-in-smartphones.jpg

source: https://arrayofthings.github.io

Top down

Bottom up

Jun YamaderaUnicorn, Chief Chaos Officer

FUKUSHIMA Wheel “Reinvent the Wheel”

http://fukushimawheel.org/ hashtag: #fukushimawheel

15,870343,334

Kintsugi (Golden Repair)

130M

Bike-Share Market

Problem

“Reinvent the

Wheel”

“Reinvent the Wheel”

“Share, Nothing Can Stop Us”

“Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.”

– Oscar Wilde

http://fukushimawheel.org/ hashtag: #fukushimawheel

TEXT

WHAT’S IN THE AIR

AIR QUALITY SENSOR PROJECT

‣ Spring 2015 live news experiment

‣ students | scientists | public health experts | inewsource

‣ 4 san diego neighborhoods & open-source air quality sensors

ONA Hack the Curriculum Grant

AIR QUALITY SENSOR KIT

Arduino

Grove dust PM2.5 sensor

Grove MQ2 gas sensor

LCD display (data ran every 30 seconds, sent averages)

Ethernet/micro-SD card upload

Photo by Camelle Sison

Photo by Yareli Parga

Photo by KC Stanfield

OUTCOME & WHAT’S NEXT

‣ http://inewsource.org/whats-in-the-air/

CITIZEN SCIENCE: SENSORS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

AMY SCHMITZ WEISS | @DIGITALAMYSW LILY BUI | @DANGERBUI JUN YAMADERA | @JUNYAMADERA

#SXSW | #SENSORJOURNO