Electronics Sensors for the Evil Genius: 54 Electrifying Projects - Softcover

Petruzzellis, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071470360 ISBN 13: 9780071470360

Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics, 2006

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

54 ELECTRONICS PROJECTS THAT VOYAGE BEYOND HUMAN SENSES!

Reach beyond the limits of your own eyes, ears, nose, and sense of touch with these 54 exciting projects that enlist the uncanny talents of electronic sensors to probe dimensions beyond mere human powers of perception. With the help of popular electronics author Tom Petruzzellis, you can build your own fantastic projects that measure, touch, and explore the limits of the known natural world -- and the leading edges of the future of science and robotics! All 54 projects are fun, easy, and inexpensive to make at home and -- best of all -- seriously exciting and impressive!

Petruzzellis takes the stuff of science fiction and science future, and brings it down to size for the home hobbyist or science fair project creator. With easy-to-follow plans, clear diagrams and schematics, and respect for your wallet, his Electronic Sensors for the Evil Genius gives you:

• Illustrated instructions and plans for amazing pretested projects advanced enough for sophisticated electronics enthusiasts but described in sufficient detail to be built even by newcomers.
• Explanations of the science and math behind each project. For instance, you can explore the technologies of vibration detection from intrusion to earthquakes
• Frustration -- factor removal -- needed parts are listed, along with sources -- and many of these projects can be built for $20 or less

AN IDEA BONANZA
With this book, you can build and explore sensing equipment that parallels devices used in today's most advanced robots, machine controls, and tools of scientific measurement. The mind-boggling possibilities for combining these sensors with other electronic and mechanical devices are literally endless! If these projects don't get your creative and inventive ideas cooking, nothing will!

EXPLORE ELECTRONIC PERCEPTION
This awesome book equips you with complete plans, instructions, parts lists, and sources for these wonderful projects:

• Jupiter radio telescope
• Research seismograph for monitoring tectonic plate movement
• Geiger counter for detecting atomic radiation
• Electronic stethoscope for hearing detailed heart and lung sounds
• Cloud chamber
• Combustible gas sniffer
• Earth field magnetometer
• Atmospheric charge (lightning potential) monitor
• Cloud charge monitor
• Low-cost ion chamber
• Advanced ion chamber
• Electromagnetic field detector
• Vibration alarm
• Infrared motion detector
• Flame detector
• Shortwave receiver
• Static tube
• pH meter
• Fluid/water level indicator
• Electronic temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure gauges
• Analog data logger
• Many, many more!

EXPLORE THE BOUNDARIES OF NATURE WITH THE POWER OF ELECTRONICS

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071470360
• ISBN 13: 9780071470360
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 330