Building on the work of other Citizen Science efforts, [doctek]’s entry for the Hackaday Prize promises to detect pollution, identify chemicals, and perform other analyses with a simple handheld device. It’s a spectrophotometer, and [doctek] is putting some real engineering into this build. A spectrophotometer is one of the simplest devices able to perform spectroscopy,…

via Hackaday Prize Entry: A Simple Spectrophotometer — Hackaday

source: http://hackaday.com/2016/07/21/hackaday-prize-entry-a-simple-spectrophotometer/

source: http://hackaday.com/2016/07/21/hackaday-prize-entry-a-simple-spectrophotometer/

source: http://hackaday.com/2016/07/21/hackaday-prize-entry-a-simple-spectrophotometer/