Environmental Monitoring with Arduino: Building Simple Devices to Collect Data - Emily Gertz

Environmental Monitoring with Arduino: Building Simple Devices to Collect Data - Emily Gertz

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Title

Environmental Monitoring with Arduino

Subtitle

Building Simple Devices to Collect Data About the World Around Us

Authors and contributors

By (author) Emily Gertz, By (author) Patrick Dijusto

Physical properties

Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 98
Width: 140 mm
Height: 216 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight: 127 g

Audience

College/higher education
General/trade
Professional and scholarly

Language

English

ISBN

ISBN 13: 9781449310561
ISBN 10: 1449310567

Classifications

BISAC category code:COM067000
Nielsen BookScan Product Class:S9.9T
BICMainSubject:TQ
LCification:TK
BISAC category code:SCI058000
BISAC category code:COM051070
BISAC category code:COM043000
BISAC category code:SCI028000
BISAC category code:SCI026000
BISAC category code:TEC008000
BISAC category code:COM051060

Publisher

O'Reilly Media, Inc, USA

Imprint name

Maker Media

Publication date

02 March 2012

Publication City/Country

Sebastopol/US

Biographical note

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. 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.

Main description

After the devastating tsunami in 2011, DYIers in Japan built their own devices to detect radiation levels, then posted their finding on the Internet. Right now, thousands of people worldwide are tracking environmental conditions with monitoring devices they¿¿¿ve built themselves. You can do it too! This inspiring guide shows you how to use Arduino to create gadgets for measuring noise, weather, electromagnetic interference (EMI), water purity, and more. You¿¿¿ll also learn how to collect and share your own data, and you can experiment by creating your own variations of the gadgets covered in the book. If you¿¿¿re new to DIY electronics, the first chapter offers a primer on electronic circuits and Arduino programming. Use a special microphone and amplifier to build a reliable noise monitorCreate a gadget to detect energy vampires: devices that use electricity when they¿¿¿re ¿¿¿off¿¿¿Examine water purity with a water conductivity deviceMeasure weather basics such as temperature, humidity, and dew pointBuild your own Geiger counter to gauge background radiationExtend Arduino with an Ethernet shield¿¿¿and put your data on the InternetShare your weather and radiation data online through Pachube