This document discusses how DIY science and citizen science are being enabled and advanced through new technologies like the Internet of Things. It provides examples of sensor projects that can be built using Intel IoT hardware kits, such as weather stations, light sensors, and devices for tracking light pollution. The document encourages participants to get involved with citizen science and claims that recent technologies will change the scientific process more in the next 20 years than the last 300 by allowing more participation and data sharing.

1. DIY Science using the Intel IoT Developer Kit
Stewart Christie: Internet of Things Community Manager at Intel
Intel Confidential — Do Not Forward

2. “The greatest legacy of Galileo, Newton and the contemporaries
wasn't those one-off breakthroughs. It was the method of scientific
discovery itself ... I believe that the process of science—how
discoveries are made— will change more in the next twenty years
than it has in the past 300 years.”
Nielsen, Michael (2011-10-03). Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked
Science (Kindle Locations 79-80). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.

3. Problems Today
Charles Holland Duell was the commissioner of the
United States Patent and Trademark Office in 1898 to
1901, and was later a United States federal judge.
Wikipedia
Despite a notable career, he’s really only known for
one quote.
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
!

4. Scientific Problems Get Larger as Knowledge Progresses
• Why are the Bees Disappearing?
• Can we DNA analysis and gene tracking help us understand our origins?
• Can we map the mind?
• What can we do with Quantum computation?
• Weather Prediction / Global Climate Change
• How can we track our environment and better care for it?
• Can we track city pollution in real time?
• How do Galaxies form?
• Can we translate the speech of Whales?
• Can we find a vaccine for Ebola?
• Are there other M-class (Earth type) planets out there?

5. DIY Scientists Have Been Around for a While
Ptolemy
Maria Sibylla
Merian
Charles
Darwin
Conrad
Gessner
Galileo Galilei

6. Now We Often Think of Scientists like this…
Photo by mars_discovery_district
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic
In order to continue to
push the limits of
discovery, people began to
specialize.
Today not even specialist
can know everything about
their chosen field.
The next step is to
leverage technology and to
democratize
Reinvent Discovery!

7. What is Citizen Science?
Citizen science is scientific research conducted, in whole or in part, by amateur
or nonprofessional scientists, often by crowdsourcing and crowdfunding.
-- Wikipedia (aka The Book of Knowledge )
How do People Participate?
• Participants provide experimental data and facilities for researchers
• Build new sensors stations and connect them to the overall project
• Raise new questions, participate in the dialog, create a new scientific culture
• Recognizing patterns within large data sets
• Discover new ways of solving problems

8. Technology Changes the Way We
do Science
The Internet
Big Data
The Internet of Things
Personalized Technology
The Maker Movement

9. Internet Problem Solving – PolyMath Story
Collaboratively,
difficult problems
can be solved.

10. Big Data is Changing DIY Science
Scientist are making large
data set available to the
public.
Often presented as a
game!
At Galaxy Zoo people
compete in a large-scale
project of galaxy research:
classifying millions
of galaxies found in the
Sloan Digital Sky

14. From Zooniverse’s Purpose
page, “The Zooniverse is
home to the Internet's
largest, most popular and
most successful citizen
science projects.”
Their Reddit AMA is great
reading.

15. List of Citizen Science Projects
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_citizen_science_projects
Wikipedia maintains a list of
project that are looking for
participants

16. The Internet of Things
Now the conversation is not
just with people.
The Internet of Things is
about building smart and
connected devices that can
sense the world around
them.
DIY Scientists are building
devices that move sensor
data into the cloud to fuel
data driven research.

17. The Maker Movement
• The Maker Movement
emphasizes learning by
doing in a social
environment.
• Children are encourage to
be part of the hands-on
learning and building.

18. Intel Launching a IoT Developer Program

19. Announced at Maker Faire Rome 2013
Intel and Arduino are Joining Forces
• Intel® Galileo development board is our first product in a new family of
Arduino*-compatible development boards featuring Intel® architecture.
The platform is easy to use for new designers and for those looking to
take designs to the next level.
• Intel is donating 50,000 Arduino*-compatible development boards
featuring Intel® architecture to 1,000 universities around the world over
the next 18 months.
• The hardware specifications and the software tools will be open source.
If we are not a part of
that [The maker
movement], we are going
to miss the future of
where computing is
going.
- Intel CEO Brian
Krzanich
At Maker Faire Rome

20. The Internet of Things

21. Intel Confidential — Do Not Forward
Intel® Internet of
Things Hardware

22. Intel® Edison - Arduino Development Board
Board I/O: Compatible with Arduino Uno (except only
4 PWM instead of 6 PWM)
 20 digital input/output pins including 4 pins as PWM outputs
 6 analog inputs
 1 UART (RX/TX)
 1 I2C
 1 ICSP 6-pin header (SPI)
 Micro USB device connector OR (via mechanical switch)
dedicated standard size USB host Type-A connector
 Micro USB device (connected to UART)
 SD Card connector
 DC power jack (7V – 15V DC input)

23. Intel® Galileo Development Board – Gen 2
Board I/O:
 Mechanically compatible with Arduino Uno
 20 digital input/output pins including 6 pins as PWM outputs
 6 analog inputs
 2 UART (RX/TX)
 1 I2C
 1 ICSP 6-pin header (SPI)
 USB device connector (Host)
 Micro USB device connector (client)
 SD Card connector
 DC power jack (7V – 15V DC input)

24. Grove Starter Kit Plus - Intel® IoT Version
1 Base Shield v2
2 Grove - Buzzer V1.1
3 Grove – Button
4 Grove-LED v1.3
5
Grove - Sound Sensor_V1.2
6 Grove - Rotary Angle Sensor
7 Grove-Touch Sensor
8 Grove - Smart Relay
9 Grove-Light Sensor
10 Grove - Temperature Sensor_V1.1
11 26AWG Grove Cable
12 Mini Servo
13 9V to Barrel Jack Adapter - 126mm
14 DIP LED Blue-Blue
15 DIP LED Green-Green
16 DIP LED Red-Red
11 Grove - LCD RGB Backlight
USB, serial
and
Ethernet
cables

25. Development Kit Hardware Bill of Materials
Arduino Board
• 2nd Generation
Intel® Galileo Board
• Intel® Edison Board
• Power Supply Unit
Starter
IoT
Development
Kit to be given
away for all
roadshow
attendees
Essential Components
• Black Ethernet Cable
• Micro USB Cable
• 8GB Micro SD Memory Card
• USB to 6 –pin FTDI Serial Cable
Sensor + Actuators
• Grove Starter Kit Plus
- Intel® IoT version
Extra Roadshow items
• PCIe Wi-Fi* + Bluetooth® cards
• Air Quality, Compass, Gyro and
Acceleration sensors
• Extra servos, and actuators
• Cables and connectors
Roadshows are two day events
located at a hackerspace with access
to prototyping tools and materials.

26. Intel and Instructables
27

27. Intel Confidential — Do Not Forward
Sensors and
Projects

28. Read a Potentiometer

29. Temperature Sensor

30. Intel® Internet of
Things Hardware

31. WeatherUnderground.com – Run Your Own Weather
Station
• Build or Buy your own weather
station
• Perfect project for an Intel Edison
• Register your weather station with
weatherunderground.com
• Begin contributing to our weather
knowledge

32. Build Your Own Weather Station Using Intel Edison
• Mechanical wind direction and
speed
• Relative humidity
• Temperature (up to four total;
air, soil and/or water)
• Barometric pressure (internal
to Control Module)
• Solar radiation (up to two total)
• General purpose analog
channels (two)
• Rain gauge (tipping bucket)

33. Designing a Tipping Rain Gauge
• Water fills one side of the rain
gauge.
• Eventually the weight of the
water causes the gauge to tip
and pour the water out
• Each time it tips a counting
button is pressed

34. Measuring Solar Energy
• Point the Solar cell towards the sun
• Send electricity to the voltage
sensor
• The voltage sensor is a proportional
amplifier which scales down the
energy to a range that can be input
into the analog GPIO pin on the
Intel Edison Arduino Breakout Board
• Send the electricity to the solar
regulate because exploding
batteries are bad.
• The Charge the battery.

35. Light Sensor Design
• Shader was 3D printed
• Shader divides the sky into
• four quadrants and casts shadows on the
photoresistors when not aligned to light source.
• Photoresistors decrease their resistance in as the
amount of light increases
• The differential voltage across the sensor from top
to bottom or left to right signals the Galileo to
activate motors.
•Wattage collected from the solar cell decreases
with the Cosine of the angle of incidence between
the light source and the cell.
Galileo Controlled
Solar Tracker
• Light orientation sensor signals direction of
the brightest area of the sky
•Geared motors automatically rotate the solar
cell
• 50mm ammo can serves as rugged,
weatherproof housing for the Intel Galileo
•Wifi hotspot to report Watts/time
• Intel Galileo board runs from the battery
• Marine grade 12V outlet conveniently
installed

36. Cities at Night Project – Track Light Pollution
Build a light pollution
detector
+

37. Call to Action
• Come by the booth, go through the things, win a kit.
• For more awesome projects, go to http://software.intel.com/iot
• Download the Eclipse C++ or Intel® XDK, JavaScript IDE

38. Intel Confidential — Do Not Forward
Thank you Stewart Christie
Twitter: @intel_stewart
For more awesome
projects
http://software.intel.com/i
ot

39. Intel Confidential — Do Not Forward