# Lets Contribute to Decentralize Science: DIY Science | Make your Own Instruments
**URL:** https://metastudio.org/t/lets-contribute-to-decentralize-science-diy-science-make-your-own-instruments/11345
**Category:** MakerSpace Chat
**Tags:** intermediate, secondary, project, everyone
**Created:** [March 20, 2021, 12:49pm UTC](https://metastudio.org/t/lets-contribute-to-decentralize-science-diy-science-make-your-own-instruments/11345 "2021-03-20T12:49:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Ashish\_Pardeshi](https://metastudio.org/u/Ashish_Pardeshi)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2021, 12:49pm UTC](https://metastudio.org/t/lets-contribute-to-decentralize-science-diy-science-make-your-own-instruments/11345/1 "2021-03-20T12:49:18Z")
DIY Science broadly refers to the process initiated by individuals and groups that experiment, hack, tinker, fix, make and recreate objects and systems out of their own interest, curiosity or need and openly share processes, results and outcomes in their networks and to the world.
One of the great example is CUBE group, where every cubist take pride and honour of DIY Science.
The school students, Undergrads, teachers, Citizen Scientists, professors etc are players/actors of DIY science .
With the recent rich and diversify technological developments and the spread of Maker Movement are encouraging even newer practises.
The impact of low cost microcontrollers and single board computers such as Arduino, Raspberry pi and similar devices are transforming the research.
They are nowadays commonly used by different cohort of people in context such as
- Marine Research
- Drug Design
- Gene Editing
- Automation
etc
#### Open source prototyping platforms and communities are enabling people around the globe to build their own instruments and do primary research.
Maker Movement is changing innovation, culture and education not only with the help of open internet technology and digital things but also through physical things such as hardware designs, sensors and networking devices.
Here I would like to legitimate the idea of making your instruments.
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### Author:  [@Ashish\_Pardeshi](https://metastudio.org/u/Ashish_Pardeshi)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://metastudio.org/t/lets-contribute-to-decentralize-science-diy-science-make-your-own-instruments/11345/2 "2021-03-20T14:12:51Z")
I was going through the post [All about FRUIT FLIES - Our Model - The Nobel Prize Winners!](https://metastudio.org/t/all-about-fruit-flies-our-model-the-nobel-prize-winners/3937) and got this question what is the effect of Temperature and Humdity on life cycle of Fruit flies.
So lets design a frugal instrument to measure temperature and humidity.
Here are required components.
Selecting a suitable Sensor.
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### Author:  [@Ashish\_Pardeshi](https://metastudio.org/u/Ashish_Pardeshi)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2021, 2:18pm UTC](https://metastudio.org/t/lets-contribute-to-decentralize-science-diy-science-make-your-own-instruments/11345/3 "2021-03-20T14:18:02Z")
Lets connect these components
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### Author:  [@Ashish\_Pardeshi](https://metastudio.org/u/Ashish_Pardeshi)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2021, 2:19pm UTC](https://metastudio.org/t/lets-contribute-to-decentralize-science-diy-science-make-your-own-instruments/11345/4 "2021-03-20T14:19:02Z")
Some sort of Callibration.
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### Author:  [@Ashish\_Pardeshi](https://metastudio.org/u/Ashish_Pardeshi)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2021, 2:39pm UTC](https://metastudio.org/t/lets-contribute-to-decentralize-science-diy-science-make-your-own-instruments/11345/5 "2021-03-20T14:39:15Z")
Data can also be visualized as Graph using Arduino Serial Plotter.
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### Author:  [@yash\_sheregare](https://metastudio.org/u/yash_sheregare)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://metastudio.org/t/lets-contribute-to-decentralize-science-diy-science-make-your-own-instruments/11345/6 "2021-03-20T14:58:57Z")
wow… did we make an instrument to measure temperature… what are the sensors actually?!
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### Author:  [@yash\_sheregare](https://metastudio.org/u/yash_sheregare)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2021, 3:03pm UTC](https://metastudio.org/t/lets-contribute-to-decentralize-science-diy-science-make-your-own-instruments/11345/7 "2021-03-20T15:03:39Z")
> [@Ashish\_Pardeshi](#):
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> Sensor
what is a sensor made up of?
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### Author:  [@ravi312](https://metastudio.org/u/ravi312)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://metastudio.org/t/lets-contribute-to-decentralize-science-diy-science-make-your-own-instruments/11345/8 "2021-03-28T17:26:15Z")
@yash_sheregare This may be useful [Here](https://www.quora.com/How-does-DHT-11-sensor-work-how-is-humidity-sensed-by-its-sensor-working-material-used-and-temperature)
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### Author:  [@Lydia](https://metastudio.org/u/Lydia)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2021, 11:51am UTC](https://metastudio.org/t/lets-contribute-to-decentralize-science-diy-science-make-your-own-instruments/11345/9 "2021-07-26T11:51:11Z")
This is great!
So by this, we can make a comparative analysis between the temperature/humidity of different culture bottles at different temperature zones and then find the optimum temperature/humidity required for the fruit fly cultures for proper data analysis.