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Kathmandu, Nepal

IESH v0.1 — Field-Testing the Classroom Laboratory

From a Raspberry Pi and a breadboard on 20 May to a boxed, working station on 10 June. The modular v0.1 adds soil temperature and moisture, CO and air-quality proxies on a proper ADC, a fisheye sky camera, and an onboard learning portal with 25+ activities — all working with zero internet. Notes from the bench, with the full build-log gallery.

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Dho Tarap, Dolpo, Nepal (4,000 m)

Crystal Mountain School — Designing the Thermal Array

We are embedding a roughly 50-sensor temperature array into the walls and rooms of the new multipurpose hall at Crystal Mountain School while it is being built — the first systematic thermal-performance dataset for a passive solar building at 4,000 m in Nepal. These are the design notes; the data comes after commissioning, not before.