When we hear spectrometer, we usually think of some piece of high-end test equipment sitting in a CSI lab. Sure, a hacker could make one if he or she put their mind to it. But make one out of a ...

It was to dig through bins full of the things shown below (many of them 3D-printed and all of them common or inexpensive) and to build a working spectrometer. We wanted them to make a device that ...

In this tutorial of Public Labs’ DIY video spectrometer, [Jeffery] takes us through the process of building a spectrometer. After cutting a small bit of plastic from a DVD-R and mounting it on ...