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The New Shop Class: Getting Started with 3D Printing, Arduino, and Wearable Tech
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The New Shop Class: Getting Started with 3D Printing, Arduino, and Wearable Tech

by Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron
May 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
300 pages
9h 3m
English
Apress
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CHAPTER 6

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Citizen Science and Open Source Labs

The technologies we have talked about in this book so far can be used for many things. One of the most exciting possibilities of the combination of low-cost custom fabrication and ubiquitous electronics may be the rise of citizen science. This chapter uses the term broadly, to mean participation by nonscientists in the solution of difficult scientific problems. The public may be recruited to analyze data by donating time on their computers when the computers are idle, or they may help analyze big pools of data that for some reason are difficult to work with in a fully automated way. They may go out ...

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