Atmospheric Monitoring with Arduino: Building Simple Devices to Collect Data About the Environment Paperback – January 1, 2013

I am a novice Arduino "engineer". I enjoyed the simple but, not over simple explanations and how to. At the end of each chapter, after a project they have a little piece on taking the project to the next level. I would have liked maybe a little idea on how the "next step" should be begin. it was kind of like throwing a dog a bone and then teasing with a chunk of meat. Maybe that could be another book?

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 a short, reasonably priced book packed with information. It describes two instruments which can be made with an Arduino: a tropospheric gas detector and a photometer. Arduino code is included in the book and can also be downloaded from a web site. The book begins with "The World's Shortest Electronics Primer" and ends with an interesting chapter on the scientific method. There are several books on Arduino projects, and this is a friendly one.

It's a decent project book if you prefer physical books over reading online however there's really nothing in this book that you can't find within an hour of searching on the internet. Forest Mims gets plenty of credit for doing most of the work for them and this is pretty much a rehash of some of his homegrown experiments.

excellent little book on the topic. I learned a few new things.Hoping to use this as a guideline for developing smallrocket-borne payloads.

So far I have only done chapter 4, but I am already concerned about the scientific credibility of the book. ( I am evaluating it for a possible science camp next summer for teenagers.) This chapter tells how to build an LED sensitivity tester. The tester is to be used for measuring and recording the peak wavelength response of LEDs for use as detectors in a photometer in the following chapters.The tester uses a tricolor RGB LED to shine light of various mixed intensities of red, green, and blue. These RGB values can indeed create a full spectrum of perceived colors for the human eye. However, they CANNOT create the wavelengths of the intermediate colors; they are useless for direct spectral analysis of LED detectors. Besides being bad science,this bogus testing method invalidates the results of all the following chapters. Those chapters may be suitable for demonstrating how you would use a calibrated photometer to make atmospheric measurements, but the actual readings will be inaccurate.After I try the gas detectors, I will update this review.

Very Helpful..... good clairityWell written....will get you going right away !Good student edition, to get started with minimum hassle .....Knowledgeable Author.

no problems great