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| donblair | "male side ... http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/610114249121/732-6071-2-ND/5047735 " | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| donblair | "oh, interesting ... i don't know how mechanically stable these will be, but: " | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| donblair | "@warren -- wow, that Pocket Operator looks so cool. It makes me wonder if there are AA battery holders like the one they used with the metal clips..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Wow, so many good thoughts .... soldering & accessibility It's a good point that it'd be nice for the kit to be useful without requiring any ..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| pdhixenbaugh | "Exciting stuff! I'd second the easy AA battery option. I can solder at a basic level, but the less it's required, the less it can go wrong. I don'..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "The Pocket Operator has a great 2x AA battery clip on the back. I know that's not exactly what you're looking for but I just love my PO so much I h..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| tonyc | "well, it's all tradeoffs...I'd prefer to have an option to use AAs without a soldering iron, since it's the simplest way to get the thing working o..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Note: regarding the RTC wakeup functionality, I posted some thoughts here: https://publiclab.org/notes/donblair/12-02-2015/random-bits-atmel-low-p..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Thanks @warren re: Semver -- that looks like just the sort of guidance I was looking for! @tonyc -- I was thinking about this issue ... one of the..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| tonyc | "Cool! I super support the easy AA battery option. I have a design for a DIY battery case I can mock up soon, one that will ship flat. I'll watch to..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "For versioning, I'm tending to use Semver. Did you push this announce out to the lists, btw? Great to see it! " | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| lbarcelo | "How did you resolve these issues? " | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Yes, nice! In the picture, it looks like one could place a little cuvette right there in the middle and assess the turbidity :) " | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "It's been on my to-do list for ages, but I finally got around to posting the build tutorials for the basic 3 component data logger based on Promini..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "At the Somerville coworking yesterday it occurred to me how similar this is to the optical particulate monitor designs! http://publiclab.org/notes..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "This looks very promising. There are a couple of controls that might add a lot to the interpretability of your tests. 1) With the water bottle in ..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| mathew | "real clever thinking! " | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| gretchengehrke | "Please post pictures in the comment section that are good example photos. I intend to put this information into a wiki page soon, and would love t..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| Markos | "Hi Mathew, You and JSummers have a huge amount of very interesting projects. I have been studying electrochemistry, but I still have a lot to lea..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "Just back from our recent fieldwork, and we've had great success with the DS18b20 temperature strings that we deployed back in March. http://edwar..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "you may want to use an existing potentiometer such as @JSummers WheeStat " | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "Hi again everybody. I finally got around to posting the Cave Pearl Project on Hackaday, and realized that it turned out to be a pretty concise sum..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| Nashblackcat | "@Mathew Mat: It is great for insulation! ASAS has it cheap so you can try it out and not break the bank. http://www.sciplus.com/p/SUPERGLUE-RED-..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "@cfastie I guess I can't guarantee they didn't leak a bit, but in my experience the rice sticks to the side of the bottle if there is moisture. I'..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago |