Use these plans to make a simple seismometer; build a sun photometer to make accurate measurements of the atmosphere; study rain, lightening, and sunlight; and build a wide variety of lightwave and radio communication circuits. This is a compilation of three of Mims's best-selling notebooks: Science Projects; Environmental Projects; and Communication projects.
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Forrest M. Mims, III, has written dozens of books, hundreds of articles, invented scientific devices, and travelled to the Amazon for NASA. He loves to share his knowledge with eager students!
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Thanks very much to Amazon's reviewers or for their kind comments about my books. "Getting Started in Electronics," which has sold more than 1.3 million copies, seems to have received the most attention, so I'll comment on it here.
The book was developed during a 58-day marathon session of laying out the book and then drawing/printing the pages with a 0.7 mm mechanical pencil. It was then necessary to develop and test each of the 100 circuits. Each circuit was built and tested at least three times to avoid errors. The final round of tests was done directly from the hand-lettered text. The problem with the final testing was that many of the circuits could be built from memory without referring to the circuit diagrams in the book. This, of course, could have allowed errors to slip through. So it was necessary to check off each connection to make sure the book version was correctly reassembled from scratch.
This was the first Radio Shack book that was entirely hand-lettered. Dave Gunzel, then Radio Shack's technical editor, decided it was time for a fully hand-lettered book, and I was glad to oblige. "Engineer's Notebook," which preceded "Getting Started in Electronics," was introduced with several typed pages before full hand lettering was begun. It was Dave's idea to introduce these books, which eventually led to the "Engineer's Mini-Notebook" series. Dave used to witness science entries in my hand-lettered lab notebooks, and those notebooks triggered his idea for me to do the hand-lettered books.
A full list of my books, scientific papers, magazine articles and newspaper columns is at www.forrestmims.org. My scholarly history of Hawaii's Mauna Loa Observatory will be published by the University of Hawaii Press. I am planning a popular version of the Mauna Loa Observatory book and a memoir about my work as a serious amateur scientist.
Forrest M. Mims III
www.forrestmims.org
The book was developed during a 58-day marathon session of laying out the book and then drawing/printing the pages with a 0.7 mm mechanical pencil. It was then necessary to develop and test each of the 100 circuits. Each circuit was built and tested at least three times to avoid errors. The final round of tests was done directly from the hand-lettered text. The problem with the final testing was that many of the circuits could be built from memory without referring to the circuit diagrams in the book. This, of course, could have allowed errors to slip through. So it was necessary to check off each connection to make sure the book version was correctly reassembled from scratch.
This was the first Radio Shack book that was entirely hand-lettered. Dave Gunzel, then Radio Shack's technical editor, decided it was time for a fully hand-lettered book, and I was glad to oblige. "Engineer's Notebook," which preceded "Getting Started in Electronics," was introduced with several typed pages before full hand lettering was begun. It was Dave's idea to introduce these books, which eventually led to the "Engineer's Mini-Notebook" series. Dave used to witness science entries in my hand-lettered lab notebooks, and those notebooks triggered his idea for me to do the hand-lettered books.
A full list of my books, scientific papers, magazine articles and newspaper columns is at www.forrestmims.org. My scholarly history of Hawaii's Mauna Loa Observatory will be published by the University of Hawaii Press. I am planning a popular version of the Mauna Loa Observatory book and a memoir about my work as a serious amateur scientist.
Forrest M. Mims III
www.forrestmims.org
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Great little book joins electronics and environmental science,
This review is from: Science and Communication Circuits & Projects (Paperback)
This book is a departure from other titles from the same author. It is of high quality like all of his other books, but it manages to get the reader interested in electronics AND elementary meteorology and environmentalism. I think that it is slightly mislabled, as I didn't see anything in the book that was about communications circuitry. However, it is packed with interesting projects on the environment such as how to monitor sunlight, listening to natural versus artificial light, rain sensors, and even projects on the hydrosphere! Most of the required components for the circuits are extremely common such as the 555 timer and 741 operational amplifier, so construction costs are minimal. If you have a teenager who needs ideas about science projects this book is a must have. Even if you are an adult interested in electronics and would like to know something about elementary circuits for measuring environmental conditions, I think you will find it a very interesting read. I know that I did.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Good Reference Book For Simple Projects,
By Steve C (Arizona) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Science and Communication Circuits & Projects (Paperback)
This book makes a good reference and has a lot of simple circuits. It's a good place to start but many of the circuits are too simple and need to be expanded on before they are really able to be used.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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A must have in any hobbyist library,
By Brian (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Science and Communication Circuits & Projects (Paperback)
The serious electronics hobbyist needs all of Forrest Mims' electronics books and the "Art of Electronics". This collection of books will serve as the foundation on which the hobbyist can build their knowledge.
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