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Friday, January 24, 2020

In This Edition:
DIY air quality monitor, Hydropanels, web dev tiny helpers, city roads & The Two Popes!

DIY Air Quality Monitor

Image: Balena.io

Balena is an IoT framework for Linux devices. They have published a new project called balenaSense with instructions on how to build an air quality monitor using a Raspberry Pi and Docker.

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Hydropanels

Image: DesignBoom, Zero Mass Water

Zero Mass Water is a tech company based in Arizona that have developed Hydropanels which use solar power to extract water from captured air vapour. The award winning technology is being rolled out in a consumer product called rexi this summer by the company, at a retail price of $2,500.

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Web Dev Tiny Helpers

Image: tiny-helpers.dev

Tiny Helpers is a collection of single purpose web development tools from CSS, APIs, Security and Sys Admin.

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City Roads

Image: Andrei Kashcha

City Roads is a tool created by Andrei Kashcha that displays only the roads on a city map. The colours can be customised and the resulting image can be printed on a mug or exported.

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Movie Review: The Two Popes

Image: Netflix

I really enjoyed watching The Two Popes on Netflix. Jonathan Pryce's performance as Jorge Bergoglio is outstanding! I'm no fan of the Catholic Church, but the narrative and progression in the discussions between the two characters works very well and as a story telling device, the film is excellent. Not to be mistaken for a documentary though :-)

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About Found This Week

Found This Week is a curated blog of interesting posts, articles, links and stories in the world of technology, science and life in general.
Each edition is curated by Daryl Feehely every Friday and highlights cool stuff found each week.
The first 104 editions were published on Medium before this site was created, check out the archive here.

Daryl Feehely

I’m a web consultant, contract web developer, technical project manager & photographer originally from Cork, now based in London. I offer my clients strategy, planning & technical delivery services, remotely & in person. I also offer freelance CTO services to companies in need of technical bootstrapping or reinvention. If you think I can help you in your business, check out my details on http://darylfeehely.com

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