Atmospheric Monitoring With Arduino by Justo, Patrick Di -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Atmospheric Monitoring with Arduino Dedication Preface

Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us

1. The World’s Shortest Electronics Primer

What Is Arduino? Electronic Circuits and Components Programming Arduino First Sketch: Make an LED Blink

Parts Install the IDE Breadboard the Circuit Write the Code Things to Try

2. Gadget: Tropospheric Gas Detector

How Gas Sensors Work Which Gases Can We Monitor? How This Gadget Works Transistorized! Build the Gadget Load the Sketch Displaying and Storing Your Data

Liquid Crystal Displays Reading Data Off EEPROM Reading Data from an SD Card

Things to Try

Other Sensors Solar Powered GSM

Do Not Deploy Your Gadget in Public Without Official Permission

Get Official Permission Get Your Community Involved

3. A Brief Introduction to LEDs

What Is a Diode? What Is a Light Emitting Diode? How Are We Using LEDs in the LED Photometer?

4. Gadget: LED Sensitivity Tester

Mission: Inputtable

Build the Gadget

5. Gadget: LED Photometer

Build the Gadget Load the Sketch

Calculating Atmospheric Optical Thickness Things to Try

Detecting “Ozone Holes”: Measuring the Ozone Layer Add an Accelerometer

6. Using the LED Photometer

Atmospheric Aerosols Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) Water Vapor (WV) Extracting Data from the LED Photometer

Graphing Data in a Spreadsheet Sending Data to COSM

7. Doing Science: How to Learn More from Your Atmospheric Data

The Scientific Method Steps in the Scientific Method

Observe Something in the World Ask an Answerable Question Formulate a Hypothesis Compare the Predicted to Actual Results, Considering the Results Ask Another Question

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