Citizen Science/Open Spectrophotometer Project

Check our Urinomics Project based on the Open Spectrophotometer design.

Updates (August 2010)

 * Vincent 05:38, 15 August 2010 (EDT): some more news about available spectrometers:
 * [The Dragon Miniature Spectrometer, range 350-900 nm, Resolution ~2.0 nm (600$) http://oceansurfshack.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=5]
 * Miniature spectrometers (USB interface), Aseq Instruments (~ 800$-1100$)
 * Mini Spectrometers from Stellarnet (~2500$)
 * Mini Spectrometer from ThorLabs (~1800$)
 * Building a home-brew recording spectrograph (great tutorial)
 * Linear CCD system with USB interface:
 * Larry-USB system from LOT-Oriel
 * High-Resolution USB 2.0 CCD Line Camera from ThorLabs (~800$)
 * Digital Linear CCD Arrays with USB Interface from AlphaLas

Announcements

 * To do list (Tuesday 9th Dec)
 * draft application form
 * spectrophotometer prototype
 * spectrometric data format (matthieu)
 * spectrometric database infrastructure (vincent)
 * Media-Lab le Prado installation (tuur)
 * Vincent 17:10, 3 December 2008 (EST): 03-12-2008 Meeting:
 * project update (Matthieu, Tuur, Vincent)
 * Tuur: arduino-based prototype
 * Next meeting Tuesday 9th Dec
 * Vincent 06:21, 1 December 2008 (EST): Project starts !
 * INTERACTIVOS?09: Garage Science Workshop-Seminar. Application deadline, 14th Dec 2008.


 * You can find the latest changes to the wiki at Recent changes for this project

Project description

 * to find my thoughts/proposals on how to introduce our project: Introduction

Acknowledgments

 * Thanks to the OpenWetWare folks for providing such an amazing Open Science platform (Courses, Protocols, Resources ...)
 * Banner picture and illustration from Ecstaticist on Flickr (CC).