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transmit voice on an infrared beam of light to a receiver hundreds of feet away. Readers could buy a kit of parts to build the
Opticom LED Communicator from MITS for $ 15. MITS sold just over hundred kits. MITS was not making money on the kits and magazine articles paid $ 400. Mims was out of the Air Force and wanted to pursue a career as a technology writer. Roberts bought out his original partners and focused the company on emerging market of electronic calculators. The January 1975 cover of
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American Foundation for the Blind. Mims was interviewed on The Amp Hour in episode #171 - An Interview with Forrest Mims - Snell Solisequious Scientist, where he discussed his career, the controversies, and his scientific research He was also interviewed by Hackaday (Forrest Mims, Radio Shack, And The Notebooks That Launched A Thousand Careers, and he wrote “A Citizen Science AMA” for Reddit and Slashdot Q&A.
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most prolific citizen scientists. Mims does scientific studies in many fields using instruments he designs and makes and his scientific papers have been published in many peer-reviewed journals, often with professional scientists as co-authors. Much of his research deals with ecology, atmospheric science and environmental science. A simple instrument he developed to measure the
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that on their own merits the columns are fabulous. If you don't do them for us you ought to do them for somebody, because they're great. ... What you've written is first rate. That's just not an issue. It's the public relations nightmare that is keeping me awake." The magazine agreed to publish only the three columns they requested that Mims write.
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audio tone that increased in amplitude as the distance to the obstacles was reduced. The infrared diodes had just been introduced by Texas
Instruments in 1965, and sold for $ 365 each. Mims visited Dr. Edwin Bonin of Texas Instruments and explained his project. After reviewing the finished design, Dr. Bonin sent Mims three infrared-emitting diodes.
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D.C. —the same site where
Alexander Graham Bell invented lightwave communications 100 years earlier. Present for the demonstration, which was sponsored by the National Geographic Society, were representatives from National Geographic, the Smithsonian Institution and Bell Labs. Bell first demonstrated his
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Forrest Mims has participated in forming a science-focused team in his three children. Daughter Sarah used kite-held smoke-and-spore sampling to keep the collection high away from local ground and airs while verifying the remote conditioning of the wind. Forrest had participated in setting up a stand
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Mims first LED sun photometer is still in use (he is shown holding it in the 26th anniversary photo above). It has dual LED’s acting as narrow band sensors, one at 830 nm and another at 940 nm (near-IR). The 830 nm LED is for optical depth. The ratio of the photocurrents from the 830 nm and 940 nm
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circulation of 15,000. The five-page article would give an overview of the device physics and typical applications; it would be featured on the
November 1970 cover. Mims asked the editors if they also wanted a project story and they agreed. Ed Roberts and Mims developed an LED communicator that would
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Medical Association convention held in Austin in April 1966. Wearing his Texas A&M Corps of Cadets uniform, Mims demonstrated his "electronic eyes" to the convention attendees. Mims and his device were widely reported in Texas newspapers.
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while at A&M. His great-grandfather was blind, and this led Mims to create a travel aid for the blind. This device was similar to RADAR, except it used the newly developed infrared-emitting diode to send intense pulses of light that reflected from obstacles. The returned light was converted to an
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Twilight photometry traditionally uses a telescope pointed toward the zenith that focuses very dim twilight onto a photodiode or photomultiplier tube connected to multi-stage amplifier. Mims’ design is unique in that it employs an ordinary LED as a twilight detector and no external optics beyond the
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Goddard Space Flight Center assigned Mims to fly at a moment's notice to a series of 7 major forest fires in Utah, California, Wyoming and Montana. A GSFC scientist had discovered that a new satellite ozone instrument could also detect smoke, and Mims was assigned to
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The various sun photometers, radiometers and cameras on the table are used every day at solar noon when the sun is not blocked by clouds. See
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computer. Roberts asked Mims to write the Altair 8800 user’s manual in return for an assembled Altair, which Mims donated to the
Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History together with many original MITS documents and his high school language translating analog computer, in 1987.
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Instead of a multi-stage amplifier, he uses a single operational amplifier with a feedback resistor of from 10 to 20 gigohms to provide a gain of 10 to 20 billion. Since 2013, Mims has used several LED twilight photometers to detect layers of smoke and dust in the troposphere and volcanic aerosols
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In 1980, Mims demonstrated the dual use concept of LEDs by building a bi-directional LED voice-communication circuit that allowed two people to transmit speech optically through the air and also through a 100-meter section of optical fiber. This demonstration was done at 1325 L Street in Washington
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While a high school senior in 1962, I first got the idea that light sensors should be able to double as light detectors. So I connected an automobile ignition coil to a cadmium sulfide photoresistor, switched on the power, and observed bright flashes of green light emitted by the semiconductor. The
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The project began in May 1988, when Mims started experimenting with making UV-B measurements using homemade equipment. In 1989, Mims designed and built the first Total Ozone Portable Spectrometer (TOPS) to monitor ozone, and instruments to measure haze and water vapor. The first TOPS (Total Ozone
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Harper's magazine (Paul Tough, March 1991, pp. 28-32) published a transcript of an October 4, 1989, recording of the magazine's editor made by Mims with his attorney's advice explaining why he planned to terminate Mims' assignment to "The Amateur Scientist." The editor stated: "There's no question
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near Saigon, Vietnam as an intelligence officer in early 1967. Mims had been interested in model rocketry since high school and brought a supply of rockets to Vietnam. He used a nearby horse racing track as a launch site to test his rocket guidance systems. After an Army helicopter gunship came to
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Forrest Mims was born in 1944 in Houston, Texas to Forrest M. Mims, Jr. (1923–1996) and Ollieve E. (Dunn) Mims (1924–1995). He was the oldest of five children, two boys and three girls. Mims' father was an Air Force pilot and the family lived on military bases from Alaska to Florida but their home
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While studying government (my major) in college, I found that certain silicon photodiodes can emit near-infrared radiation that can be detected by similar photodiodes. I managed to send modulated tones between such photodiodes. In 1971 I demonstrated the ability of many LEDs to detect light while
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with the goal of exterminating up to 90% of the human population. Pianka has stated that Mims took his statements out of context and that Pianka was explaining what would happen from biological principles alone if present human population trends continue, and that he was not in any way advocating
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In May 1988, Mims wrote to Scientific American proposing that he take over The Amateur Scientist column, which needed a new editor. The magazine flew Mims to New York to discuss details but the editor had second thoughts after he learned that Mims was a practicing Christian who rejected Darwinian
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The interest in electronic kits and experiments declined, and in 2003 Radio Shack scaled back their project books and components. (Four volumes of Mims’ 16 Engineers Mini-Notebooks are still available. Mims developed and wrote the manuals for three Radio Shack lab kits: Electronics Learning Lab,
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His books could be understood by hobbyists and were illustrated with hand-drawn schematic diagrams and, eventually, hand-lettered text. This style proved popular, and Radio Shack commissioned 36 books between 1972 and 2003. His “Understanding Digital Computers” sold more than 100,000 copies. The
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Total ozone (Dobson units) measured at solar noon at Geronimo Creek Observatory since February 4, 1990. Measurements conducted only when sun is open and free of clouds. Mims has compared his measurements against Dobson 76 and Brewers 009 and 119 at the Mauna Loa Observatory each year since 1992.
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In the 1990s, he began conducting serious science and began to write about atmospheric science and his measurements of solar ultraviolet radiation and the Earth's ozone layer with homemade instruments that sprang from one of his columns for “The Amateur Scientist” in Scientific American (“How to
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worked with Mims at the Weapons Laboratory and was also interested in electronics and model rockets. Roberts augmented his Air Force salary with an off-duty company, Reliance Engineering. Mims, Roberts and two other co-workers decided they could design and sell model rocket electronics kits to
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In addition to utilizing the dual-mode use of LEDs for communication, Mims decided to utilize the dual use of LEDs to perform measurements on specific properties of the atmosphere. In a paper published in Applied Optics (1992), entitled “Sun Photometer with light-emitting diodes as spectrally
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Mims tested his infrared travel aid at the Saigon School for Blind Boys and Girls in Saigon and the story appeared in many U.S. newspapers. Colonel David R. Jones of the Air Force Weapons Laboratory learned of Mims's experiments on a trip to Vietnam and arranged for Mims to be assigned to the
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published Mims 30 year paper on Climatology: "A 30-Year Climatology (1990–2020) of Aerosol Optical Depth and Total Column Water Vapor and Ozone over Texas." This time series now exceeds a similar measurement series at Table Mountain, California, by the Smithsonian Institution's Astrophysical
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Among Mims’ recent books is “Environmental Science: An Explorer’s Guide,” a 600-page book with hundreds of illustrations published by Intelligent Education (2018). The book is divided into five units: Air, Earth, Fire, Space and Water. Each unit concludes with field reports that detail Mims’
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hand-lettered books sold more than 7 million copies, the best seller of which was “Getting Started in Electronics”, which sold 1.3 million copies and is still in print. By the 1990s, components became smaller and it was difficult to assemble electronics projects with low-cost hand-tools.
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Mims was interested in science at an early age, and he built an analog computer as a high school science fair project in 1960. While memorizing his Latin class vocabulary words, Mims conceived a computer that could translate twenty words from one language to another. The input was six
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The ratio of these two wavelengths provides the total water vapor. The trend is slightly down (approx. -1.5 mm/decade). Calibration: NOAA GPS data from Galveston, TX, and Mauna Loa Observatory, HI. Measurements are made at or near solar noon when clouds are not before the sun.
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check out the rocket launches, Mims learned to notify military authorities before launching rockets at the race track. A night launch from the roof of his apartment house caused an alert at Tan Son Nhut Air Base. Mims' rocket exploits were reported in the military newspaper,
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Mims also wrote articles for a wide variety of general-interest and technical magazines and 849 weekly science columns from 1999 to 2016 for the Seguin Gazette, many of which were also published by the San Antonio Express-News under “The Country Scientist” heading
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selective photodiodes”, Mims describes how LEDs can function as light detectors. In 2002, Mims followed with another LED sun photometer paper, “An inexpensive and stable LED Sun photometer for measuring the water vapor column over South Texas from 1990 to 2001”.
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Monitor Ultraviolet Radiation from the Sun, August 1990). His finding of a drift in ozone retrievals by NASA’s Nimbus-7 satellite led to his first publication in the prestigious journal Nature (F. M. Mims III, Satellite Monitoring Error, Nature 361, 505, 1993
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On February 4, 1990, these instruments were first used at solar noon to measure the ozone layer, haze (aerosol optical depth) and total column water vapor. The photograph at left by Mims wife Minnie was made February 4, 2016, the 26th anniversary date.
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experimenting with an optical fiber communication system. By placing a single LED at each end of the fiber, it was possible to send signals both ways through the fiber with only a single, dual purpose semiconductor device at each end of the fiber.
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Mims' interest in LEDs began in 1962, when he was experimenting with photosensitive devices and discovered the inverse effect. In the "Backscatter" section in an online issue of The Citizen Scientist, Mims describes this himself:
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Mims entered Texas A&M University in the fall of 1962 as a physics major. The mathematics courses convinced him to major in liberal arts. He graduated in 1966, with a major in government with minors in English and history.
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Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Colonel Jones had to make special arrangements because Mims did not have the required engineering degree. Mims arrived at the lab in March 1968, and worked on various laser projects.
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Dr. Uta C. Merzback visited Mims to request donations to the Smithsonian. "He also has an Altair, which still runs and is in excellent condition, given to him by Ed Roberts in return for writing the machine's operating
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The chart at right shows the total column water vapor measured since 1990. Total column water vapor is measured at 940 nm and 830 nm (reference wavelength) using the same sun photometer first used on February 4, 1990.
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The San Antonio Light wrote, "Although a political science major at A&M, Mims's second interest obviously is 'science and inventing things.'" Mims would continue to improve this device over the next several years.
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first-hand scientific experiences. Mims has also written “Make: Forrest Mims’ Science Experiments,” a 212-page book published by Makermedia (2016) that includes 30 of Mims’ science columns in Make magazine.
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For more than thirty years, Mims has made accurate and detailed atmospheric measurements. These include measuring the ozone layer, haze (aerosol optical depth), and the total column water vapor.
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stores sold books that featured projects that could be constructed using the components that were being sold in their stores. In 1972, Mims wrote two hobbyist project books for Radio Shack.
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service during fall 1989) is in his left hand. Two Microtops II are in his right hand. One is among the first (1997) and the other is the only MicroTOPS II with LED’s as photodetectors.
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atmosphere just above Earth’s shadow scatter sunlight toward the surface, where it can be detected by a twilight photometer. The elevation of these particles can be calculated.
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Mims organized the Albuquerque Model Rocketry Club to interest students in model rocketry. The club soon had 40 members and held meetings at Del Norte High School and the
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Measurements made at or near solar noon when the sun is not obstructed by clouds. Peaks indicate smoke, dust and smog. Saharan dust events are measured each summer.
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Mims wrote technical books on semiconductor lasers and light-emitting diodes. He coauthored a book on electronic calculators with his friend, Ed Roberts in 1974.
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Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009.
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NMAH Object ID: 1987.0066.01. This Altair 8800 was displayed in the Information Age exhibit from 1990 to 2006.
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carried a press release written by Mims announcing that Reliance Engineering had formed a subsidiary company,
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in 1966 with a major in government and minors in English and history. He became a commissioned officer in the
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Forrest Mims created hand-drawn illustrations and hand-lettered text for many of his books and articles.
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Carlin, Margie (January 30, 1970). "Want to Fly a Rocket? Albq Academy Is the Pad".
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describing his homebrew analog computer complete with schematics and photographs.
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Defending Darwinism: How Far is Too Far?. Origins Research 13:1. Hartwig, Mark
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Engineer's Mini-Notebook: Formulas, Tables & Basic Circuits (1988)
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magazine. Their monthly circulation was 400,000 readers compared to
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1122:"Transistorized Tracking Light for Night Launched Model Rockets"
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Raikoke Volcanic Aerosol Cloud Elevations Over Texas and Hawaii
2005:"The Sun & Sky Monitoring Station's Calculation Worksheets"
980:. Vol. 138, no. 2. Hearst Magazines. pp. 86–88.
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Heard, Robert (April 20, 1966). "Glasses For Blind Developed".
829:"Forrest M. Mims, Fellow — Center for Science and Culture"
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2362:. The Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
1219:. Vol. 33, no. 5. Ziff Davis. pp. 45–50, 98–99.
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2301:. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium.
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Mims, Forrest (December 1987). "A Homebrew Analog Computer".
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Semiconductor Diode Lasers (with Ralph Campbell, Sams, 1972)
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Electronic Circuitbook 1, Project Construction (Sams, 1976)
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Electronic Calculators (with H. Edward Roberts, Sams, 1974)
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series of instructional books that were originally sold in
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Study of aerosols in the atmosphere by twilight scattering
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A Collection of Historical Articles: Bell - The Photophone
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Lasers, the Incredible Light Machines (David McKay, 1977)
1744:, Scientific American, 263, 2, pp. 126-129, October 1990.
711:'Country Scientist' starting column today in Express-News
162:. Mims is a Fellow of the pseudoscientific organizations
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Engineer's Mini-Notebook: 555 Timer IC Projects (1984) *
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Mims, Forrest (November 1970). "Light-emitting Diodes".
1045:. Van Wert, Ohio. Central Press Association. p. 14.
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Engineer's Mini-Notebook: Communication Projects (1985)
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Engineer's Mini-Notebook: Digital Logic Circuits (1985)
1423:"A Gift Of Hobby Electronics Inspires Future Engineers"
1204:. Vol. 33, no. 5. Ziff Davis. pp. 35–43.
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103 Projects for Electronics Experimenters (Tab, 1981)
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Exploring Atmospheric Aerosols by Twilight Photometry
1722:, Scientific American, 262, 6, pp. 130-133, June 1990
1696:"Mims: 30 years measuring the atmosphere over Seguin"
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Introduction To Transistors & Transistor Projects
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Make: Forrest Mims' Science Experiments (Make, 2016)
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Radio Shack Introduces the World of Computing (1977)
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Siliconnections: Coming of Age in the Electronic Era
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LEDs as dual purpose emitters and detectors on light
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Electronic Circuitbook 5, LED Projects (Sams, 1976)
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2035:"Amateur Science--Strong Tradition, Bright Future"
1694:Column, Forrest Mims III Guest (9 February 2020).
2486:Engineer's Mini-Notebook: Science Projects (1990)
1299:Campbell, Ralph; Mims, Forrest (September 1972).
1061:. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. June 25, 1967. p. 17A.
160:Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2492:Engineer's Mini-Notebook: Sensor Projects (1996)
2468:Engineer's Mini-Notebook: Optoelectronics (1985)
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1011:(4). Cambridge, MA: Model Rocketry, Inc: 23–25.
636:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
663:from the 21-23 June 2019 volcanic eruption of
2670:Commentary on the Mims and Pianka controversy
2456:Beginner's Guide to Personal Computers (1981)
2269:. Vol. 31. Applied Optics. p. 6965.
1755:"Big Bang Over Belief at Scientific American"
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2423:Integrated Circuit Projects, Volume 6 (1977)
2420:Integrated Circuit Projects, Volume 5 (1976)
2417:Integrated Circuit Projects, Volume 4 (1975)
2414:Integrated Circuit Projects, Volume 3 (1975)
2411:Integrated Circuit Projects, Volume 2 (1974)
2408:Integrated Circuit Projects, Volume 1 (1973)
929:. Vol. 4, no. 12. pp. 39–41.
863:"Questions and Answers About Climate Change"
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2504:Electronics Learning Lab, Workbook 2 (2000)
2501:Electronics Learning Lab, Workbook 1 (2000)
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974:"Electronic 'eyes' let the sightless 'see'"
412:Stepped-tone generator (Atari Punk Console)
306:Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems
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2429:Computer Circuits for Experimenters (1974)
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2435:Semiconductor Projects, Volume 2 (1976)
2432:Semiconductor Projects, Volume 1 (1975)
1720:Sunspots and How to Observe Them Safely
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2447:Understanding Digital Computers (1979)
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2459:Getting Started in Electronics (1983)
1022:"There Is No Substitute For Talent".
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2594:Siliconnections (McGraw-Hill, 1985)
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1979:The Citizen Scientist: Book Reviews
1640:III, Forrest M. Mims (2016-08-03).
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2528:Light Emitting Diodes (Sams, 1973)
2393:Introduction to Transistors (1972)
2390:Introduction to Electronics (1972)
2089:"Citizen scientist - Rolex Awards"
1975:"Sun & Sky Monitoring Station"
1835:The Citizen Scientist: Backscatter
745:Powell, Corey S. (December 2008).
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713:ForrestMims.org, October 30, 2006
2009:The Citizen Scientist: Feature 2
537:Sun & Sky Monitoring Station
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2033:Mims, Forrest M. (1999-04-02).
1331:. Indianapolis: Howard W Sams.
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1057:"Soldier Invents Seeing Aid".
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914:. Amarillo, Texas. p. 31.
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2438:Security for Your Home (1974)
273:. George Flynn, Publisher of
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2537:Optoelectronics (Sams, 1975)
2453:Engineer's Notebook 2 (1982)
2450:Engineer's Notebook 1 (1979)
1803:Mobley, Jamie (2006-04-05).
1480:M, Forrest (February 1993).
961:. April 15, 1966. p. 2.
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1273:Computer History Collection
1001:"Model Rocketry in Vietnam"
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1301:Semiconductor Diode Lasers
2339:. New York: McGraw-Hill.
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1831:"LEDs as Light Detectors"
1562:"A Citizen Scientist AMA"
1548:"Hackaday Mims Interview"
1482:"Nature, Satellite Error"
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1024:Pacific Stars and Stripes
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2286:. Makezine. p. 63.
1467:"The Country Scientist"
1327:; Forrest Mims (1974).
1269:"Altair Computer, 1975"
1084:The Albuquerque Tribune
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2297:Mims, Forrest (2020).
2280:Mims, Forrest (2016).
2265:Mims, Forrest (1993).
1623:Mims, Forrest (1982).
1606:Mims, Forrest (1984).
1406:Mims, Forrest (2003).
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912:Amarillo Globe Times
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1760:The Washington Post
1279:on January 21, 2012
1229:Mims (1986), 33-36.
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