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Prologue
Remember the satisfaction of building things from your imagination when you were a child―maybe with the help of a friend or parent? That freedom and excitement of creating something, letting others build upon it, and learning from it are what motivated Alicia Gibb, hacker and open hardware activist, to join the open hardware movement.
Caren Cooper is an associate professor of Forestry and Environmental Resources and member of the Chancellor's Faculty Excellence Program in Leadership in Public Science at North Carolina State University. She is an advocate for citizen science and open science, and has written a book on these subjects. Caren is also the director of research partnerships at SciStarter, which connects people to citizen science projects, other citizen scientists, and resources.
Public Lab is a network of environmental advocates—including organizers, researchers, technologists, and educators—working to provide low-cost, open hardware tools for monitoring communities' air, water, and land quality.
AirCasting is an end-to-end open source solution for collecting, displaying, and sharing health and environmental data using smartphones.
UPROSE promotes sustainability and resiliency in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood. Founded in 1966, it is Brooklyn's oldest Latino community-based organization.
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