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Table of Contents:

• How to study tree rings
• Snow science
• Tracking heat islands
• Vibration sensors
• Make an experimental optical fiber seismometer
• Ultra-simple sunshine recorders
• The infrared thermometer: an essential science gadget
• Capturing and studying airborne dust, smoke, and spores
• Track the leading greenhouse gas
• Build a twilight photometer, part 1
• Build a twilight photometer, part 2
• How to analyze scientific images
• Doing science with a digital scanner
• Data mining: how to analyze online scientific data
• How to document what you make or discover
• MARS-BOT: adding science to Robotics
• How to photograph the solar aureole
• Record your world from a picture post
• Digital pinhole photography
• How to make and use retroreflectors

• How to use LEDs to detect light
• Use LEDs to track night-launched projectiles
• Connecting fibers to LEDs and sensors
• Transform things into sounds with the PunkPAC
• Making synthesized music from your data
• Startups: origins of the PC revolution
• Thomas Jefferson: maker in chief
• The kit that launched the tech revolution
• When projects fail.

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Author/Creator:

Mims, Forrest M. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Make: Forrest Mims' science experiments: DIY projects from the pages of Make: [by Mims, F.M.]

Related Works:

Make (Sebastopol, Calif.)

Subjects:

Science — Experiments

General Notes:

Includes index.

Physical Description:

xii, 212 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

Q164 .M56 2016

ISBNs:

9781680451177 (paperback)
1680451170 (paperback)

OCLC Numbers:

1053483692
948562307 [Invalid]