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

by Patrick DiJusto, Emily Gertz

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.

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

87 pages, Paperback

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.