Atmospheric Monitoring with Arduino: Building Simple Devices to Collect Data about the Environment Contributor(s): Di Justo, Patrick (Author), Gertz, Emily (Author) |
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ISBN: 1449338143 ISBN-13: 9781449338145 Publisher: Make Community, LLC OUR PRICE: $5.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Sensors - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) - Science | Experiments & Projects |
Physical Information: 0.19" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.25 lbs) 87 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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.
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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Justo, Patrick Di: - Patrick Di Justo is a contributing editor at Wired magazine, where he writes the magazine's monthly What's Inside column, and the author of The Science of Battlestar Galactica (Wiley, October 2010). His work has appeared in Dwell, Scientific American, Popular Science, The New York Times, and more. He has worked as a robot programmer for the Federal Reserve, and knows C, C++, Java, and Processing. He bought his first Arduino in 2007. Gertz, Emily: -Emily Gertz is a correspondent for OnEarth Magazine. She has been covering DIY environmental monitoring since 2004, when she interviewed engineer-artist Natalie Jeremijenko for Worldchanging.com. Her latest, on citizen radiation monitoring in Japan, was published by OnEarth Magazine in April 2011. She has been hands-on with internet technologies since 1994 as a web producer, community host, and content strategist. Her articles have appeared in Grist, Dwell, Scientific American, Popular Mechanics, and more. |