There are some practical examples of home experiments that can be conducted with a spectrometer on the PublicLab wikipage here: http://publiclab.org/wiki/spectr

There are some practical examples of home experiments that can be conducted with a spectrometer on the PublicLab wikipage here: http://publiclab.org/wiki/spectrometry-activities http://publiclab.org/wiki/spectrometry-activities I particularly like the idea of being able to test for fraudulent extra virgin olive oil (http://publiclab.org/notes/ygzstc/04-30-2014/detection-of-olive-oil-adulteration-with-peanut-oil-using-visual-light-spectroscopy http://publiclab.org/notes/ygzstc/04-30-2014/detection-of-ol...).