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Thermal Reader for DIY Petri Dish Incubator - August 10th

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Petri Dish incubators are quite expensive. Seeing that this item would be crucial to my project, I am building an incubator at a minimal cost. Today I created the temperature sensing unit that would ade me in keeping the temperatures constant, a must in conducting a good experiment. I got the temperature senser from a detection unit for PCs. The board used is an Arduino Uno.

The Idea - August 10th

 I was visiting family back in my native country, India. Unlike here in America,  dengue , Zika,   chikungunya,  yellow fever, and other mosquito-borne diseases are still at large. Still, in many rural areas medication is not wide ly available for such diseases. The constant fear of these illnesses forces people to sleep under protective nets. With  2500 million people worldwide at risk of infection and 20 million cases a year in more than 100 countries (WHO) these pests are incredibly harmful. My goal with this project is to give an easy, fast, and cheap way to counteract these diseases.