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Atmospheric Monitoring with Arduino: Building Simple Devices to Collect Data about the Environment
Makers around the globe are building low-cost devices to monitor the environment, and with this hands-on guide, so can you. Through succinct tutorials, illustrations, and clear step-by-step instructions, you'll learn how to create gadgets for examining the quality of our atmosphere, using Arduino and several inexpensive sensors.
Detect harmful gases, dust particles such as smoke and smog, and upper atmospheric haze--substances and conditions that are often invisible to your senses. You'll also discover how to use the scientific method to help you learn even more from your atmospheric tests.
Get up to speed on Arduino with a quick electronics primer
Build a tropospheric gas sensor to detect carbon monoxide, LPG, butane, methane, benzene, and many other gases
Create an LED Photometer to measure how much of the sun's blue, green, and red light waves are penetrating the atmosphere
Build an LED sensitivity detector--and discover which light wavelengths each LED in your Photometer is receptive to
Learn how measuring light wavelengths lets you determine the amount of water vapor, ozone, and other substances in the atmosphere
Upload your data to Cosm and share it with others via the Internet
The future will rely on citizen scientists collecting and analyzing their own data. The easy and fun gadgets in this book show everyone from Arduino beginners to experienced Makers how best to do that.
--Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief of Wired magazine, author of Makers: The New Industrial Revolution (Crown Business)
Detect harmful gases, dust particles such as smoke and smog, and upper atmospheric haze--substances and conditions that are often invisible to your senses. You'll also discover how to use the scientific method to help you learn even more from your atmospheric tests.
Get up to speed on Arduino with a quick electronics primer
Build a tropospheric gas sensor to detect carbon monoxide, LPG, butane, methane, benzene, and many other gases
Create an LED Photometer to measure how much of the sun's blue, green, and red light waves are penetrating the atmosphere
Build an LED sensitivity detector--and discover which light wavelengths each LED in your Photometer is receptive to
Learn how measuring light wavelengths lets you determine the amount of water vapor, ozone, and other substances in the atmosphere
Upload your data to Cosm and share it with others via the Internet
The future will rely on citizen scientists collecting and analyzing their own data. The easy and fun gadgets in this book show everyone from Arduino beginners to experienced Makers how best to do that.
--Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief of Wired magazine, author of Makers: The New Industrial Revolution (Crown Business)
90 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 20, 2012
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June 8, 2019
Book shovel ware
Would have been interesting if the authors had put in a little bit more effort, which seems to be par for the course on the other Make Magazine books I’ve read.
Biggest annoyance: a transistor is called for in the schematic without listing a part number. Sorry, authors, there’s a lot of transistors out there with a lot of hFE values.
The projects are kinda neat, it’s just that nobody did a good technical edit to make sure that it was actually repeatable.
Would have been interesting if the authors had put in a little bit more effort, which seems to be par for the course on the other Make Magazine books I’ve read.
Biggest annoyance: a transistor is called for in the schematic without listing a part number. Sorry, authors, there’s a lot of transistors out there with a lot of hFE values.
The projects are kinda neat, it’s just that nobody did a good technical edit to make sure that it was actually repeatable.
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December 18, 2019Great read!
This is an excellent book to introduce atmospheric science and arduino programming to a 10 year old. We used it for his science fair project.
This is an excellent book to introduce atmospheric science and arduino programming to a 10 year old. We used it for his science fair project.
January 29, 2014
A good project book that finds the right balance between scientific experiments and hands-on Arduino training.
February 4, 2014
Because it is a wonderful book.
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