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Cathy Davidson's bloghttp://www.hastac.org/node/1618 [Cathy Davidson's blog] Niemeyer calls his game the Black Cloud after the ominous andmysterious clouds of black soot that descend on Cairo, Egypt, everyOctober. No one is really sure what causes the clouds exactly, but somesay they're a result of burned agricultural waste combining with thecity's excessive pollution.

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Free Change[Free Change] TSL252R-LF: Steven Glaser pointed me to the wonderful Taos TSL252 linear light sensors, which allow us to read a voltage from the sensor, multiply it with a constant, and voila LUX. I tested the 25X series and found that only the one designed for the greatest amount of brightness, the TSL252, is suitable for our purposes.

machine project[machine project] Air Quality Case Study: Echo Park: The Black Cloud Citizen Science League is organized by: Rhea Cortado (Costume Designer), Aida Eltorie (Arts Manager), Andy Garcia (Teacher, Manual Arts High School), Laura Greig (Artist/Programmer), Farley Gwazda (Artist), Nik Hanselmann (Programmer/Artist), Reza Naima (Hardware Engineer), Greg Niemeyer (Principal Investigator) and Daye Rogers (Video Documentary).

The Click Heard Round the World[The Click Heard Round the World] MacArthur & HASTAC fund 17 badass digital civic engagement and ...: Black Cloud is an environmental studies game that mixes the physical with the virtual to engage high school students in Los Angeles and Cairo Egypt. Teams role-play as either real estate developers or environmentalists using actual air quality sensors hidden through the city to monitor neighborhood pollution. 

[My Country Was of Thee] Cash in, Miss Smith: The message is really pro-environment which is certainly one I agree with, but it's great to see the more general plug for science as long as the flat earth society is constantly trying to take us back to a simpler time.

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