Hi, I’m Moz, a software geek and cyclist in Sydney, Australia. I bought an A3 and it arrived a week ago, but I work with embedded systems guys who are mostly gadget freaks so it took a bit of effort to bring it home from work. I’m interested in air quality, I live fairly close to a major road and wonder just how bad the air is. Plus I live in a “shedroom” made of coolstore panels (steel skin over 75mm of EPS) glued together. It’s almost airtight, and the cyanoacetate glue is supposed to stop outgassing after a week (shed built two months ago) but after closing the room up all day I can smell it. Now I can measure it too – when you see formaldehyde go up and AQ go down on my graphs, that’s the outgassing 🙂 It’s also an effective faraday cage, two layers of steel in the walls and roof, so the A3 inside has to be ethernet. When I’m at work it gets over 40 degrees Celsius in the shed quite regularly because the room is sealed up… but it also gets over 40 degrees outside 🙂

I’ve done a deal with my boss to split the cost so have also backed the Indegogo campaign and will have a couple more A3’s shortly. My plan is to have a second unit outside the shed, then leave one unit at work. That one will probably move round inside the building while my co-workers argue about air quality and whether they can buy the sensors and build a similar device for less money (I don’t expect that they will actually build one, but they like talking about how easy it would be… and if they do I can test their one too).