[Past Projects]
Dr. Hunter King and Bana Khakipoor
Mobile phones have become popular in everything we do, from photography to organizing our schedules, to science!
In this project we use mobile phones to do science by creating a citizen science application to measure nutrient loading in lake Erie’s tributaries. Normally one need to use a colorimeter or spectrometer to measure phosphate or nitrate concentration in water. Colorimeter costs ranges from >$1k to $3,$4k, making it inaccessible for average citizen scientists. Hence, in this project we developed smartphones + Fab Lab produced spectrometers to hack the spectrometer industry!
You’ll be using Xamarin to develop our application for Android, Windows, and iOS platforms. We already have done some works in Xamarin.iOS which could be your starting point. You can either be a developer or a designer. Our developer needs to be computer science undergraduate. Our designer needs to be innovative and think of how this technology can become more inviting and intriguing for citizen scientists.