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 Introduction
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-PAR is measured during environmental monitoring and research.  We developed PARduino because it has the potential to collect environmental data in research plots at a lower cost than what we currently use for data aquisition.
+PAR is measured during environmental monitoring and research.  We developed PARduino because it has the potential to collect environmental data in research plots at a lower cost than what we currently use for data acquisition.
 
 Design Files
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