Heyo,
Me + @dx made a project for #39c3 this year, in which we made 5 DIY air purifiers a la Corsi-Rosenthal Cubes, but modified to be more portable, easier to take apart and put together, and overall be congress-safe. We had them at Angel Restaurant (2), CERT (2) and Kidspace (1), so you may have seen them around.

We have published details and files here if interested: https://github.com/c3infsch/aircycles (feel free to reach out with questions or if you want to build them so we can help)

We just finished taking them apart for the year and threw out most of the filters as they looked really dark, and with that we're done with 39c3 🎉

If you'd like to help offset our costs so far, and help us build more for future events (we got so many more requests than we could supply), we've set up donation links:
https://bunq.me/aveao (also shows the IBAN if you prefer to do a bank transfer)
https://paypal.me/aveaoz
(Transfer reference "Aircycles Donation" or "Aircycles Spende" please.)

As for the amount: We've spent about 700eur not including the costs of prototyping, and for next year we plan to build even more of them to meet the demand. We don't intend to make a profit, so I might edit this post later if donations reach too high an amount (but I doubt we'll get there).

Thank you! (and boosts welcome)

@ave @dx And i was just doing research on easy to transport (DIY) air filters to use at the assemblies.
They look really good and good initiative!
@sa7dse @ave i'd love a more compact, possibly cylinder shaped design that people can just put in the middle of a table. there are consumer units like that, but i don't trust the performance of commercial air purifiers. i think we're gonna be doing a bunch of testing in the near future
@dx @sa7dse @ave do you know the xiaomi air purifier filters? they are cylindrical and could be outfitted with a single fan in the middle and would be quite compact per surface area. aftermarket filters are also quite cheap at ~16€/pcs. but that would probably need some qualification as to how well the filters actually perform.

@ln @dx @sa7dse official ones appear to be hepa (and cost €40) which requires a lot more pressure to put things through than MERV 13, would be worried about quality of aftermarket ones tbh, but we can check.

part of the choice here is political as the ones we use are proven and widely used in this manner, and questions of "will this even work, you won't get any air through it, why not get something professional" etc etc are already commonplace (but currently easy to counter)

@ave @ln @dx @sa7dse and having standard filters that are easly sourced everywhere is quite nice too
@ave @dx @sa7dse i have the very strong urge to back this up with data now lol. i wanted to use a home-grown air purifier based on the cheap filters anyways and will report back if/when i make progress. hmm, now i wonder how to properly test and quantify this…

@ln @ave @sa7dse for measuring pm2.5 clean air delivery rate this is a cute guide: https://itsairborne.com/how-to-measure-hepa-air-cleaner-filter-cadr-a660bfa4479d

PM2.5 CADR is sliiightly differently defined to the cleanairkits target (dust CADR, 0.5-3μm) but the sensor we have (SPS30) considers the range 0.3-2.5μm so close enough

How to measure CADR of a HEPA air cleaner | It’s Airborne

How to measure the CADR Clean Air Delivery Rate of a HEPA air cleaner or Corsi-Rosenthal box using a PM2.5 meter and nebulizer DIY

It’s Airborne