What makes our air unbreathable? Do you know the air quality at your living environment? A low-cost IoT air quality sensor has been designed to detect PM2.5 in the air you breath.
In order to improve the monitoring of local air quality and increase the accessibility of these public data, you are invited to build an “Air Quality Box”. After completion of this workshop, you will bring the air quality box to your home, and start gathering the air quality data to contribute them to an open sourced air quality database.
In this workshop, you will:
- Learn about what is citizen science, the air pollution problem in Hong Kong and how to measure air quality
- Understand the basics of electronics, arduino programming and how IoT works
- Assembly and programme an air quality box detecting PM2.5
- Monitor PM2.5 level and contribute to citizen science database
Class Details:
- Language: Cantonese/ English
- Duration: 4 hours
Preparation:
- The air quality box need to connect to wifi, so please mark down the wifi name and password from your home and bring it along to the workshop, we will teach you how to connect the wifi in the coding part.
- Go to App store to install ThingView before coming to the workshop.
Credit: image of Maker Bay
Age
12+
Price
Fee: 980 HKD
Telephone number
+(852) 9610 8167
Links
Address
Hong KongUnit H-508, Block B, Hollywood Side 35 Aberdeen Street, Central, Hong Kong
How to get there?
By MTR
MTR Central, Exit D2
MTR Sheung Wan Exit E2