Arduino in Science: Collecting, Displaying, and Manipulating Sensor Data

It's a simple question, but do you know how to take basic measurements with your Arduino, Raspberry Pi or PC? A lot of the times, you know how to use microcontrollers, sensors, and programming skills to collect data. This book takes it one step further to teach you how to transform your PC, Raspberry Pi, and Arduino to a device that can measure, collect, and analyze data.
You'll begin from a simple starting point reviewing the basics of electronics and digital and analog concepts. As you advance through this book, you'll work through 10 exercises to develop a working knowledge of microcontroller properties and graphical data presentation concepts, basic electronic technology, and the fundamentals of controlling and acquiring data.
Arduino in Science is your guide to monitoring and measuring physical - chemical parameters with integrated circuitry and physical computational systems.

What You'll Learn

• Review fundamental human machine interfacing with supervisory control and data acquisition software
• Examine timing, counting, and serial communication concepts
• Adapt microcontrollers to perform sophisticated functions
• Understand collection and presentation of data

Who This Book Is For

Beginner-level students, citizen scientists, and hobbyists, and is also great for educators who can seamlessly implement this content into STEM programs.

這是一本關於如何使用Arduino、Raspberry Pi或個人電腦進行基本測量的書籍。很多時候，你可能已經知道如何使用微控制器、感測器和程式設計技巧來收集數據。這本書將進一步教你如何將你的個人電腦、Raspberry Pi和Arduino轉變為一個可以測量、收集和分析數據的設備。

你將從簡單的起點開始，回顧電子學和數位和類比概念的基礎知識。隨著你在這本書中的進展，你將通過10個練習來發展對微控制器特性和圖形數據呈現概念、基本電子技術以及控制和獲取數據的基礎知識。

《Arduino in Science》是你在集成電路和物理計算系統中監測和測量物理化學參數的指南。

你將學到什麼：

- 回顧人機介面與監控控制和數據獲取軟體的基本知識
- 探討時間、計數和串行通訊概念
- 適應微控制器以執行複雜功能
- 理解數據的收集和呈現方式

適合閱讀對象：

初學者、公民科學家、愛好者，以及教育工作者，可以將這些內容無縫地融入STEM課程中。

Richard J. Smythe attended Brock University in its initial years of operation in southern Ontario and graduated with a four year honours degree in chemistry with minors in mathematics and physics prior to attending the University of Waterloo for a master's degree in analytical chemistry and computing science and a doctorate in analytical chemistry. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the State University of New York at Buffalo in electro-analytical chemistry Richard went into business in 1974 as Peninsula Chemical Analysis Ltd. Introduced in 1966 to time-shared computing with paper tapes, punched cards, BASIC prior to Fortran IV at Waterloo, the PDP 11 mini-computers and finally the PC, Richard has maintained a currency in physical computing using several computer languages and scripting codes. Professionally Richard has functioned as a commercial laboratory owner and is currently a consulting analytical chemist, a civil forensic scientist as PCA Ltd., a full partner in Walters Forensic Engineering in Toronto, Ontario and senior scientist for Contrast Engineering in Halifax Nova Scotia. A large portion of Richard's professional career consists of devising methods by which a problem that ultimately involves making one or more fundamental measurements can be solved by using the equipment at hand or using a readily available "off-the shelf/ out of the box" facility to provide the data required.

Richard J. Smythe在布魯克大學就讀，當時該大學位於安大略省南部，他在那裡獲得了化學四年榮譽學位，並在數學和物理方面取得了副修學位，然後前往滑鐵盧大學攻讀分析化學和計算科學碩士學位，並獲得博士學位。在紐約州立大學水牛城分校進行了電分析化學的博士後研究後，Richard於1974年創立了Peninsula Chemical Analysis Ltd.。Richard於1966年接觸到了基於時間共享的計算，使用紙帶、打孔卡片、BASIC和Fortran IV等技術，然後使用PDP 11迷你計算機，最終轉向個人電腦。Richard一直保持著對物理計算的熟悉，使用多種計算機語言和腳本代碼。在職業生涯中，Richard曾擔任商業實驗室的所有者，目前是PCA Ltd.的諮詢分析化學家，也是多倫多Walters Forensic Engineering的合夥人，以及Halifax Nova Scotia的Contrast Engineering的高級科學家。Richard的職業生涯的一大部分是設計方法，通過使用現有設備或使用現成的設施來解決最終涉及進行一個或多個基本測量的問題，以提供所需的數據。