Open source "tricorders": handheld sensor packages for everyone

For the past five years, Peter Jansen, a Canadian scientist whose PhD is in neural computation and cognitive modelling, has been developing a series of open source hardware "tricorders" -- handheld sensor packages running GNU/Linux that can be used by everyday people to make and record observations about the world around them. There are several [...]

Source: http://boingboing.net/2012/03/29/open-source-tricorders-ha.html

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