Mr. Mims it is a pleasure to find you here. I look forward
to your first post (of many, I hope)!
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Wow! I don't know WHAT to say, except Thank You! I owe you a great deal Mr. Mims.
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As I recall, Forrest started publishing in the model rocketry arena before he began toying with electronics per se.
Dean
Dean
Dean Huster, Electronics Curmudgeon
Contributing Editor emeritus, "Q & A", of the former "Poptronics" magazine (formerly "Popular Electronics" and "Electronics Now" magazines).
R.I.P.
Contributing Editor emeritus, "Q & A", of the former "Poptronics" magazine (formerly "Popular Electronics" and "Electronics Now" magazines).
R.I.P.
Forrest Mims III
Yea Dean. I remember reading an article of his that sent a disc camera up in a kite, then remotely took pictures as it was flying. Excellent!
I've designed and built several rockets that had electronics in them. I built an off the shelf rocket with an el-cheapo camera that took real grainy pictures, to say the least.
Anyway, after seeing the article, I decided to build a rocket to send one of those disc cameras in and take snap shots after the parachute opened. It was about 6 foot tall and about 4 inches in dia., but I never got to finish testing with the camera installed. Too bad, now that I think of it. Anyway, I still have the camera in my junk drawer.
He'd always get my imagination going, because his projects were always modifiable.
evahle
I've designed and built several rockets that had electronics in them. I built an off the shelf rocket with an el-cheapo camera that took real grainy pictures, to say the least.
Anyway, after seeing the article, I decided to build a rocket to send one of those disc cameras in and take snap shots after the parachute opened. It was about 6 foot tall and about 4 inches in dia., but I never got to finish testing with the camera installed. Too bad, now that I think of it. Anyway, I still have the camera in my junk drawer.
He'd always get my imagination going, because his projects were always modifiable.
evahle
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Checking in with like minded experimenters
Greetings Electronics Experimenters,
Thanks very much for the kind greetings. I've read Nuts and Volts for years and should have joined the forum long ago.
While I still do circuit design, most of my time is spent using instruments, which I either designed and built or professional versions of the same, to measure the ozone layer, optical depth (haze), photosynthetic radiation, solar UV, total column water vapor (total amount of water vapor through the atmosphere), etc. I began a serious program doing these measurements on 4 Feb 1990 and will soon have 19 years of data. This research has resulted in a string of scientific papers with more to come.
You can be assured that using your electronics skills to do real science is about as fulfilling an activity there is, and I encourage you to consider the options. You can see some of mine at www.forrestmims.org.
For the past 5 years I have been editor of the non-profit THE CITIZEN SCIENTIST (www.sas.org/tcs), and we are quite proud to be publishing some first class material about scientific ballooning by Paul Verhage.
While I read every e-mail that arrives, time is limited by the conflict posed by the many messages that arrive and the need to earn a living. So while I do read everything, replies may be slow at times.
Forrest
Forrest M. Mims III
www.forrestmims.org
Follow my science at www.twitter.com/fmims
Thanks very much for the kind greetings. I've read Nuts and Volts for years and should have joined the forum long ago.
While I still do circuit design, most of my time is spent using instruments, which I either designed and built or professional versions of the same, to measure the ozone layer, optical depth (haze), photosynthetic radiation, solar UV, total column water vapor (total amount of water vapor through the atmosphere), etc. I began a serious program doing these measurements on 4 Feb 1990 and will soon have 19 years of data. This research has resulted in a string of scientific papers with more to come.
You can be assured that using your electronics skills to do real science is about as fulfilling an activity there is, and I encourage you to consider the options. You can see some of mine at www.forrestmims.org.
For the past 5 years I have been editor of the non-profit THE CITIZEN SCIENTIST (www.sas.org/tcs), and we are quite proud to be publishing some first class material about scientific ballooning by Paul Verhage.
While I read every e-mail that arrives, time is limited by the conflict posed by the many messages that arrive and the need to earn a living. So while I do read everything, replies may be slow at times.
Forrest
Forrest M. Mims III
www.forrestmims.org
Follow my science at www.twitter.com/fmims
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GURU?! More like ELECTRONICS ROCK STAR!!dacflyer wrote:WOW, a GURU is among us... WELCOME
Its an Honor Sirrah!!
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