Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-10
Open PM Network Keeps the Whole Air-Quality Record
An open particulate-matter sensing platform built for offline field measurements, complete sensor data, and community science.
Why it surfacedOpen PM Network treats disconnection as a field condition rather than an edge case: ESP32-S3 nodes buffer complete SPS30 output on local storage and safely retry uploads. Its early outdoor comparison reported 97.3% coverage of eligible hourly bins, while carefully noting that the result is a consistency check—not calibration or accuracy validation.
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Ham Is Specifically Discouraged
August 10’s newborn domains include a mock cryptid council that specifically discourages ham, a vintage phone collecting messages for Twyla’s 70th, a 4.5-meter dish measuring Galactic hydrogen at 1420 MHz, and an open index that found 530 sites permitting GPTBot in robots.txt while refusing it at the server.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-10 Domain Arrivals issue.