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Building environmental monitors? Consider adding voice interaction! The KT148A chip brings clear audio warnings & guidance to devices like formaldehyde detectors. Features: 16KHz audio, ultra-low power, one-wire control, direct speaker drive. Ideal for making invisible threats audible. Complete implementation guide available.
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#KT148A #AirQuality #Formaldehyde #EnvironmentalTech #Embedded #OpenHardware #DIYElectronics #SafetyTech

Making Air Safety Audible: How Voice Chips Transform Formaldehyde Detectors

Traditional air quality detectors often rely on silent displays or basic beeps, leaving users uncertain about actual pollution levels. What if your detector could clearly speak the results and guide you to safety?

We've just published an in-depth look at how the KT148A voice chip brings intelligent, audible interaction to smart formaldehyde and PM2.5 detectors. This isn't just about adding sound—it's about creating a more human-centric, safety-focused user experience.

Why KT148A is ideal for environmental monitoring devices:
✅ Crystal-Clear Voice: 16KHz sampling for natural, understandable warnings.
✅ Direct Speaker Drive: Powers 0.5W speakers without external amplifiers.
✅ Ultra-Low Power: Standby at 25μA, deep sleep at 1.7μA—perfect for battery operation.
✅ Easy Integration: One-wire serial control simplifies MCU communication.
✅ Field-Updatable: Change voice content via USB-to-TTL, no factory returns needed.

From real-time concentration announcements to multi-level safety alerts, KT148A turns invisible threats into audible protection. Check out the full application case study in our latest blog.

How do you think voice interaction could improve other monitoring devices? Share your thoughts below! 👇

#VoiceChip #AirQuality #FormaldehydeDetector #IoT #EmbeddedSystems #HardwareDesign #SmartHome #EnvironmentalTech #ProductDesign #SafetyFirst

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Turn silent air monitors into speaking safety guardians! KT148A voice chip adds clear warnings & guidance to formaldehyde detectors. Low power, easy MCU integration. Perfect for smart environmental tech. #AirQuality #IoT #Embedded #VoiceTech #SmartHome
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6 Things to Know About Sheep’s #WoolInsulation

When it’s time to update your home’s insulation, consider what sheep’s wool has to offer.

By Alexa Erickson, Mar 24, 2021

"Sheep’s wool insulation uses a natural fiber base.

Among the most popular insulation materials today are #fiberglass and #rockwool (also known as mineral wool). Both consist of man-made fibers spun from, as their names suggest, molten glass or minerals such as basalt or diabase. While these insulation types are considered safe by institutes such as the U.S. National Toxicology Program and the International Agency for Research on Cancer, they do contain synthetic, hairlike fibers that can break off and become airborne during installation. They also contain #formaldehyde, which is known to release volatile organic compounds (#VOCs) into the air. Both airborne fibers and formaldehyde can irritate the skin and lungs, and long-term exposure to formaldehyde may cause some types of cancer. Even spray foam insulation can be especially dangerous due to the high level of VOCs that off-gas into the air during installation and before it cures completely.

Sheep’s wool insulation starts as sheared wool that grows naturally on sheep—often wool that is deemed too coarse to make into clothing or other fabric. It is important to note, however, that it is common manufacturing practice to treat sheep’s wool insulation with additives such as boric acid to repel insects and further reduce flammability. Ammonium sulfates may also be added as a fire retardant. So while the base material is inherently natural, the sheep’s wool insulation end product is also not completely free of toxins. Both additives are considered poisonous if ingested and can cause irritation to the skin, eyes, nose, and throat. Moreover, boric acid is classified as a reproductive toxin by the Classification, Labelling and Packaging (CLP) Regulation in Europe. [Boric acid does not pollute like #PFAS though]

When installing any type of insulation in your home, always use caution and wear the protective gear recommended by the insulation manufacturer."

Learn more:
https://www.bobvila.com/articles/sheeps-wool-insulation/

#SolarPunkSunday #Insulation #AnimalProducts #Wool #SprayFoamAlternatives #FiberglassAlternatives #SyntheticAlternatives

Symptom: Mast Cell Itching

https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-mast-cell-itching/

#allergicreactions #Allergies #allergy #art #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #buildingSafety #chonicillness #chronicIllness #claws #eds #ehlersdanlossyndrome #environmentalIllness #environmentalillness #fingers #formaldehyde #heds #hypermobile #hypermobility #hypermobilityspectrumdisorder #immunology #itched #itching #longCovid #longcovid #mastCell #mastCellActivationSyndrome #mastcell #mastcellactivationsyndrome #mastcelldisease #mastocytosis #mcas #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #nails #POTS #prop65 #publicHealth #publicHealth #pwLC #pwme #scratched #scratching #scratchy #severeallergy #vocs

A human in the center of a manila bookmark is covered from head to toe in red purple dark lines, in clusters often of 4 to 5 lines. They represent itching and scratching and cover the entire body some in long scratches and itches which go the length of a chin or from a hip down to almost the knee and some in short little bursts. They curve around body shapes, so even though there is nothing underneath them, the way they wrap around things imply the anatomical structures underneath. Some people say these lines evoke muscle diagrams, despite the fact they zig and zag around the body in ways which are not muscular. The hands are dramatically stylized, fingers splayed and holding tension, as if about the begin scratching again.

Làm thế nào để chọn giường sắt không chứa formaldehyde cho giấc ngủ ngon?

https://marketplace.tripmap.vn/product/giuong-sat-1-1-8m-khong-formaldehyde-thep-cung-on-dinh-cao-khung-giuong-sat-gia-tot-872k

#giuongsat #formaldehyde #giacngu #noithat #dogiadung

TEMPO Air Quality Monitoring: Three Example Cases

#Dust #Emissions #Formaldehyde #NitrogenDioxide #Pollution #TroposphericOzone #Wildfires #aerosols

⏩ 1 new picture and 1 new video from NASA (SVS) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=6&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20250704125931

TEMPO_Air_Quality_Monitoring-_Three_Example_Cases_(SVS5566_-_dust_still).jpg

TEMPO Air Quality Monitoring: Three Example Cases

#Dust #Emissions #Formaldehyde #NitrogenDioxide #Pollution #TroposphericOzone #Wildfires #aerosols

⏩ 1 new picture and 1 new video from NASA (SVS) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=6&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20250704125931

@Bentley

The #AQHI a fundamentally useless scale for #wildfires.

Earlier this week, someone with actual science behind them broke down why and how the AHQI isn't fit for #WildfireSmoke conditions.

Article linked in my toot:

https://mstdn.ca/@likelyjanlukas/114656839640715424

#AirQuality
#AirPollution
#VOC
#formaldehyde
#ToxicGasses
#ToxicAir
#Measurement
#Scales
#usability
#functionality
#health
#lungs
#breathing
#filtration
#N95
#PPE
#respirators

Finally! ❤️ A knowledgable scientist breaks down why Canada's AQHI is incredibly useless and even perhaps dangerous framing wrt wildfire smoke!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s99C1lTgKyNoYKAnP3fE4E1vx8T-6Vd2a-Ea1JMRlH4/mobilebasic

Thank you, @jeffgilchrist !

https://mstdn.science/@jeffgilchrist/114653878597387411

#air
#AirPollution
#AQ
#AirQuality
#AQHI
#Canada
#AQI
#wildfires
#WildfireSmoke
#WildfireSafety
#safety
#particulate
#VOC
#formaldehyde
#toxic
#smoking
#lungs
#breathing
#PPE

Hè, gelukkig:

“Emmen zegt dat de Omgevingsdienst Drenthe wekelijks een kijkje neemt ‘vanwege illegale sloop en asbestsanering’. Ook nemen BOA’s het verlaten fabrieksterrein regelmatig mee in hun rondje, blijkt uit de brief.”

#StuivendAsbest
#MineraleOlie
#Tolueen
#Barium
#Formaldehyde
#VervuildGrondwater
#BlijvenKijken

https://dvhn.nl/drenthe/emmen/Terrein-voormalig-AAF-fabriek-in-Emmen-blijkt-complete-gifput.-Kankerverwekkende-stoffen-in-de-grond-en-%E2%80%98stuivende-asbes-46462231.html

SciTech Chronicles. . . . .May 11th, 2025

https://bit.ly/stc051125

#sugars #nucleotides, #formaldehyde #"Abiotic aldol reactions" #photons #" photonic computing" #"matrix multiplications" #AI #StEnSea #"pump-turbine" #valve #400kWh #Norm #"Norman Diverter" #FRC #Confinement #tools #structures #Skye #Holocene

Start of the hols and in the wee collection in the bookshelf.A meticulous researched local history booklet,love finding stuff like this
Gruinard Island also known as Anthrax Island! ,😮
#Gruinardisland #anthrax #ww2 #formaldehyde

Front page of booklet, showing Gruinard Island

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGXPesSleRA&pp=0gcJCYQJAYcqIYzv

#DemocracyNow

'Musk Is Scamming the City of #Memphis': Meet Two Brothers Fighting #Colossus, Musk's #xAI #Data Center

#KeShaunPearson, executive director of #MemphisCommunityAgainstPollution

State Rep. #JustinJPearson, District 86

#AdolphMusk #EnvironmentalRacism #TN #Tennessee #NitrogenDioxide #Tech #BillionairesSUCK #Electrolux #EnvironmentalJusticeNOW #Formaldehyde #PaulYoung 🤮 #LeeHarris 🤮

PressConference today at 4.30 pm Tennessee time

#TimPearsonRIP 💔

“They [the #Trump admin] already have a track record of ignoring the #science,” said Tracey Woodruff, director of the Program on Reproductive Health & the Environment at UCSF. “Now, they’re in charge of government agencies that decide the rules.”

#PublicHealth #health #formaldehyde #cancer #law #USpol

What has been extraordinary, #health & #legal experts said, is the extent of the #industry’s effort to block the EPA’s scientific work on a #chemical long acknowledged as a #carcinogen, & how the architect of the effort was back at the agency as a regulator of #chemicals. At the same time, the #Trump admin has moved to sharply reduce the federal scientific work force.

#PublicHealth #science #formaldehyde #cancer #law #USpol

The council’s president, Chris Jahn, told a #Senate hearing shortly after the #Trump inauguration that his group intended to tackle the “unnecessary #regulation” of #chemicals in the #US. “A healthy nation, a secure nation, an economically vibrant nation relies on chemistry,” he said.

It is not unusual or unlawful for industry groups to seek to #influence public #policy in the interest of their member companies.

#Trump #PublicHealth #health #formaldehyde #cancer #law #USpol

In recent weeks it has urged the #EPA to discard its work on #formaldehyde entirely & start from scratch…

The American Chemistry Council is also seeking to change the agency’s approval process for new #chemicals & speed up EPA’s #safety reviews. That review process is a key part of Dr. Dekelva’s purview at the agency.

Another fmr chemistry council lobbyist, Nancy Beck, is back alongside Dekleva at the EPA in a role regulating existing chemicals.
#Trump #PublicHealth #health #cancer #law #USpol

Dekleva is now at the #EPA in a crucial job: She…has the authority to approve new #chemicals…. Earlier she spent 32yrs at Dupont, the chemical maker, before joining…the first #Trump admin.

Her most recent employer, the chemicals #lobbying group, has made reversing the EPA’s course on #formaldehyde a priority & is pushing to abolish a program under which the agency assess the #risks of chemicals to human #health.

#PublicHealth #cancer #science #law #USpol #idiocracy

#Formaldehyde, the #chemical of choice for undertakers & embalmers, is also used in products like furniture & clothes. But it can also cause #cancer & severe #respiratory problems. So, in 2021, the #EPA began a new effort to #regulate it.
The #chemicals industry fought back w/an intensity that astonished even seasoned ofcls. Its campaign was led by Lynn Dekleva, then a lobbyist at the American Chemistry Council, an #industry group that spends millions on govt #lobbying.
#PublicHealth #law #USpol

#Formaldehyde

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