AIR at Still Open teaches workshop participants how to build their own modified AIR device. Rather than focusing on beautiful design, the aim of this workshop is to convey the basic electronic and software design knowledge in order to replicate our research.

Participants will obtain an overview of the Arduino open source physical computing platform and its associated software, learn how to connect a high precision pollution sensor and a GPS module. In addition we will also use Processing in order to download collected pollution data and use a C++ program to convert our files into KLM files the format used by Google Earth.

We will conduct a few warm-up exercises and then assemble the entire AIR development kit. Equipped with our AIR devices we will then conduct walking and driving tours around the city in the hunt for fossil fuel burning hotspots and high pollution occurrences. We will be able to see our collected data in Google Earth, once we returned to the workstation and converted the files.

This is how your AIR board is going to look like