{"id":6243,"date":"2010-11-30T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/11\/30\/forrest-mims-on-amateur-science\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T20:35:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:35:55","slug":"forrest-mims-on-amateur-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/11\/30\/forrest-mims-on-amateur-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Forrest Mims on amateur science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ForrestMimms.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 139px; height: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ForrestMimms.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545296656875477634\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s another dose of inspiration from one of our &#8220;Homebrew Heroes.&#8221; Forrest Mims has been one of my heroes for a long time. A colleague yesterday gave me a copy of a recent article in Make about his ozone measuring device (build at home with Radio Shack parts!). With this device he was able to outshine NASA in the data accuracy department. Check out the article:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.make-digital.com\/make\/vol24?pg=28#pg28\">http:\/\/www.make-digital.com\/make\/vol24?pg=28#pg28<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another interesting article by Forrest on amateurs in science: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/284\/5411\/55.full?maxtoshow=&#038;HITS=10&#038;hits=10&#038;RESULTFORMAT=&#038;fulltext=forrest+mims&#038;searchid=1&#038;FIRSTINDEX=0&#038;resourcetype=HWCIT\">Forrest Mim&#8217;s article in Science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another dose of inspiration from one of our &#8220;Homebrew Heroes.&#8221; Forrest Mims has been one of my heroes for a long time. A colleague yesterday gave me a copy of a recent article in Make about his ozone measuring device (build at home with Radio Shack parts!). With this device he was able to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/11\/30\/forrest-mims-on-amateur-science\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Forrest Mims on amateur science&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[411],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mims-forrest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6245,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6243\/revisions\/6245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}