Welcome our newest microMedic judge: Forrest M. Mims III
Ken Gracey
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Hey all,
You read it correctly. We are very fortunate to have somebody we all know as a valuable educator in our electronics experience: Forrest M. Mims III.
www.forrestmims.org
Thank you Forrest for your support in the 2013 National microMedic Contest!
Ken Gracey
Parallax Inc.
You read it correctly. We are very fortunate to have somebody we all know as a valuable educator in our electronics experience: Forrest M. Mims III.
www.forrestmims.org
Thank you Forrest for your support in the 2013 National microMedic Contest!
Ken Gracey
Parallax Inc.
Comments
Welcome, Mr Mimms!
20 Years later am using his books to tutor and teach my fellow college students ... He is a Icon for the "makers" and DIYers of the 80s and 90s ...
One thing he is known for is the use of LEDs as a RX sensor..... Deja Vu! the optics lab Yesterday was on sensors and the first part was to use a Green LED as a detector.. Tis a small world .......
Peter.
I just wanted to remind people, even before I found that Mr.mims was going to judge...
That Mr.Mims discovery of using an LED to detect photons could be used as a cheap sensor...
Not an accurate one (however using luxeon rebels might help sensitivity, or other high output leds, not becuase they are cheap but because they have high output, 3.3v @ 30ma makes a rebel VERY bright with no need for cooling, and can also be used for detection due to 100ohm resistor(or less depending on VF of led)
I mention this because leds are so cheap, one could use 50 of them to sense something and still not be expensive..
A bunch of sensors that velcro around a limb or body part with leds placed in specific spots to do pulse detection, with a full body velcro kit, one could determine blood flow irregularities. And other things depending on wavelength and intensity of led outputs.
I will not be making this due to poverty.
Forest Mims is largely responsible for my interest in electronics (beyond my Uncle's Ham Radio).
Thank you Mr. Mims sir for all your contributions.
Now I wish I was in the contest. I came up with a great idea just yesterday!
I've been reading some of his books recently. First, his two LED books from 1973 are interesting (i'm working on an LED book proposal) and he also wrote an interesting memoir in the mid-80s called Siliconnections.
Sort of a hero for me.
Thank you for all your contributions.
This one in particular
influenced me in so many ways!
+1, the Engineer's Notebook got a lot of us going in the hobby. I have my original yellow copy plus a few backups. They are starting to appreciate on Ebay & Amazon! http://www.ebay.com/itm/Forrest-Mims-Engineers-Notebook-NEW-by-Forrest-M-Mims-/180743269176?pt=US_Nonfiction_Book&hash=item2a15236b38
$32.79 for a copy printed in 1992? Golly gee, Wally, I've got a copy or two of the 1980 edition. I feel rich all over.