Atmospheric Monitoring with Arduino: Building Simple Devices to Collect Data about the Environment

by Patrick DiJusto, Emily Gertz

Around the globe, DIYers are building an infrastructure out of low cost sensors, cheap computers, and cloud-based data sharing. One of the most important environmental conditions to monitor is the quality of the atmosphere. Atmospheric Monitoring With Arduino shows you how to create your own gadgets to measure what's inside every breath you take; the kind and size of dust particles from smoke to smog, how much haze is in the upper atmosphere, the transparency of the night sky, and more! You'll also learn how to share your data with people across your community, your nation, and the world, and how to build rugged enclosures to protect your gadgets in the field.

Genres: Technology, Stem, Science, Engineering, Ebooks, Computer Science

90 pages, ebook

First published November 20, 2012

Reviews

[Wirehead · Rating 1 out of 5]

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.

[Mariusz]

Great 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.

[Thijs · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good project book that finds the right balance between scientific experiments and hands-on Arduino training.

[Patrick DiJusto · Rating 5 out of 5]

Because it is a wonderful book.