This last post for the quarter started out with me looking for someone that put it all together. Turns out I found this instead and it got my attention. Measuring Pollution and Health – Wearable Project Wins Prize. It was dated July 11th, 2013. What was the prize? A sum of $15,000. Here’s one of the winners with a project demo. I’ve seen some impressive work done by folks and to think this sort of work doesn’t have rewards is…
This idea came late in the design phase of the sensor helmet. As it turns out, commercial sensors for detecting radiation aren’t as tiny as sensors for detecting light, sound, motion, etc. Also, they are 10 times the cost of other conventional sensors. The cost and size would prohibit the sensor being integrated with the sensor helmet, but it could still be used for specific mapping purposes. I was able to initially source detectors online from resellers like Sparkfun and…
The 3 GP2Y1010AU0F Compact Optical Dust Sensors arrived in the mail the other day. These are air quality sensors that use IR to detect fine particles and smoke in the air. I’ll be using them with my sensor helmet to detect air pollution and plot the results on a map or overlay the readings on my action camera video. They are smaller than I envisioned. Sparkfun sells them but they were out of…