Seeing the Heat of the World
The Price Science Commons promotes research and education in a myriad of ways, from providing a makerspace were a person can develop their devices and sensors, or providing math tutors, to providing a suite...
Category: citizen science
360° Spherical Video for the Virtual World – Thor’s Well Oregon
An image from a GoPro Max 360° Spherical Video Camera Associated with the use of UAV-Quadcopters to help create virtual experiences of real places (see the last post) the Price Science Commons also...
The Benefit of HAM Radio
A set of 2-meter / 70-cm Handheld radios with some other functions including GPS, temperature, FM Radio, and APRS tracking, a 10-meter radio, a 2-meter radio beacon, a remote camera and other odds and...
Building Directional Antennas
In my last post I wrote about using radio beacons connected to the APRS or Automatic Packet Reporting Service for some of our DeArmond MakerSpace student’s projects. This is where a radio broadcasts data...
Tracking Across Landscapes
So, in the University of Oregon DeArmond MakerSpace, in preparation for one event that probably won’t happen, but also for another event that likely will, we have been working on our beacon systems...
Eugene City Nature Challenge 2020
This last weekend was the 2020 City Nature Challenge. I blogged about the event last year, but it is such great event that I am covering it again this year. It involves the organismal...
Into the Hands of Motivated Students
One of the fun things to do is to get equipment into the hands of students that will create and have fun with a project. Recently, the University of Oregon Department of Geography...
Backyard Biodiversity – I
Check out this Feralia deceptiva moth I found in the yard recently. While stuck around the house during the Covid-19 pandemic there is always the opportunity to learn more about what things live...