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Make your own aerial photos and maps with our flight kit and MapKnitter browser app. Add a camera to our reusable 5.5' balloon & kit.

Balloon Mapping Kits

Make your own aerial photos and maps with our flight kit and MapKnitter browser app. Add a camera to our reusable 5.5' balloon & kit.
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mathew lippincott
mathew lippincott
463 backers pledged $34,646 to help bring this project to life.
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Launching our Homebrew Oil Testing Kit

At the beginning of 2012, you all helped us launch our kits initiative with our first kit, the Balloon Mapping Kit. This kit was born out of mapping the Deepwater... Read more

Hack your holidays with Public Lab!

This winter, choose gifts that delight your loved ones AND help support your favorite non-profit organization, Public Lab.

Check out these holiday specials at store.publiclab.org:

Intro Kits for just $5!... Read more

Infrared "plant health" cameras are back!

Hello all -- it's been a while, but we wanted to get in touch again because one of the "advanced" rewards from this campaign has grown up into it's own... Read more

Grassroots Mapping Forum on its way to backers!

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After a few delays owing to shipping standards,  the first regular issue of Grassroots Mapping Forum is on it's way to backers via bulk mail!  I'm extremely excited that... Read more

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Preparing Grassroots Mapping Forum #2 & Surpassing our Retail Goals

Its been 3 months since our Kickstarter drove us to 544% of our required backing, and our retail sales have been keeping pace, with over 250 additional kits purchased through... Read more

Most IR cameras are shipped!

Just an FYI - all except the 3 "fully assembled" IR kits were shipped yesterday, USPS. 

Documentation for the kits is IN PROGRESS -- if you're interested in collaborating on... Read more

Infrared camera kits almost ready to go

Hello all - this is Jeff from Public Laboratory -- I was tasked with getting the dual-camera kits together and I apologize for the slow pace. I hope you've been... Read more

Progress on infrared cameras

(This update is by Jeff Warren, also with Public Laboratory, who's been working on the infrared camera rewards)

For those of you waiting for infrared/visible camera pair kits (and those... Read more

544% success, 300 new Grassroots Mappers

Thank you all for an incredible Kickstarter campaign!  We're overjoyed to say that not only have we broken our wildest goals, we've also more than tripled the number of grassroots... Read more

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Successfully raised $34,646 with 463 backers

by popular demand: 10 more IR and Visible camera + balloon kits now available

By popular demand we're putting together another ten sets of matched visibile light and modified infrared cameras (Canon A490/A495).  Read more about what they can do here.  Kits are $325.... Read more

Free subscription with your balloon kit! Limited edition kits!

In thanks for our runaway success, we're giving all current $85 balloon kit backers a free subscription to Grassroots Mapping Forum in addition to their kits.

Limited Special Offer: Matched... Read more

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Get ready for March Mapping Madness

Two weeks in, and our Kickstarter is 299% funded at $18,566! With the way our support is going, we now think we can reach $25,000, so keep up the good... Read more

Passing our Goal and Beyond

Thanks to all of our backers! 

We can hardly believe the outpouring of support that has catapulted us to almost double our goal in 5 days!  Keep getting the word... Read more

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