Electronics Sensors for the Evil Genius: 54 Electrifying Projects

54 super-entertaining projects offer insights into the sights, sounds, and smells of nature

Nature meets the Evil Genius via 54 fun, safe, and inexpensive projects that allow you to explore the fascinating and often mysterious world of natural phenomena using your own home-built sensors. Each project includes a list of materials, sources for parts, schematics, and lots of clear, well-illustrated instructions.

• Projects include: rain detector, air pressure sensor, cloud chamber, lightning detector, electronic gas sniffer, seismograph, radiation detector, and more

Tom Petruzzellis is an electronics engineer with 30 years’ experience currently working with the geophysical field equipment department at the State University of New York—Binghamton. He is also an instructor at Binghamton. He has written extensively for industry publications, including Electronics Now, Modern Electronics, QST, Microcomputer Journal, and Nuts & Volts, and is the author of four earlier books: Build Your Own Electronics Workshop; STAMP 2 Communications and Control Projects; Optoelectronics, Fiber Optics, and Laser Cookbook; and Alarm, Sensor, and Security Circuit Cookbook, all from McGraw-Hill. Mr. Petruzzellis lives in Vestal, New York.