Connect your weather station to Weather Underground.

This page describes setting up an air quality monitoring station. This is a work in progress; we're currently creating prototype systems.

This page describes setting up an air quality monitoring station using a CO2 sensor, dust sensor, and WiFi shield

This project page describes how to make a sun-tracker (heliostat) using a solar panel, current sensor, servo, and some other parts.

This project describes a sensor-based aquaponics system. The sensors measures water levels, water quality, temperature, humidity, and light. The system can sound an alarm when these variables go outside pre-specified ranges. It can also control pumps, lights, and other equipment.

This project provides a data recorder for a high-altitude weather balloon. The recorder stores sensor values and GPS coordinates onto a data flash module.

How to use the current sensor to measure current and voltage.

This page describes how to set up a fish tank monitoring system. It measure water temperature, pH, air temperature/humidity, and light levels. It transmits the data via a WiFi or Ethernet connection (depending on the version) into a Manylabs data set.

This project introduces the Bluetooth Mobile Sensor kit and shows how to interact with an Arduino and sensors in real-time.

This page describes how to setup and calibrate a pH sensor.

This project covers the construction of a microcontroller monitored plant growing box. The microcontroller monitors the temperature, humidity, soil moisture, and light inside the plant box.

This page describes how to build a plant watering system.

This page describes how to use an Arduino, sensors, and cell phones to make measurements that are analogous to measurements made by earth science satellites.

This project describes a computer-controlled robot that can take measurements or perform science experiments. The default configuration is an autosampler, with a sensor attached to an X-Y-Z positioning mechanism. You can also attach a pipette or USB microscope to the device.

This page describes how to setup a test tube color sensor.

Low-cost optical dust sensors can be used to estimate particulate pollution levels.

This project is an overview of a portable system for measuring water pollution that we're currently designing and testing. It includes sensors for dissolved oxygen, salinity, temperature, pH, and turbidity.

This project guides you through the construction of a microcontroller based weather station that can monitor temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, barometric pressure, and rain.

This project shows how to measure the current, voltage, and power produced by a KidWind wind turbine.

This is a tool for visualizing and recording long term data from a weather station kit. It can also send data to a personal weather station account on wunderground.com.

Records and displays short term data from a weather station kit.

This lesson displays data from an environmental sensor kit.

Guides users through configuring the Plant Watering Kit.

Guides students through a simulation of a p-n junction based solar cell.

A simulation showing how the angle and intensity of the sun affects solar panel output.

A simulation that shows how air density, wind speed, and blade length affect the power output of a wind turbine.

This lesson demonstrates the use of the data set viewing/analysis tools. It displays a sample of weather data from Pittsburgh, PA and asks the students to familiarize themselves with the tools and answer simple questions about the data.

Guides students through quantifying changes to the design of a wind turbine. More information is available on the Wind Turbine Power Measurement project page.

Students will participate in an experiment to illustrate how the inclination of the earth influences the presence of seasons by measuring the light that strikes a globe. 4 tables with globes must be setup around and equidistant from an open bulb in the center (representing the sun). Rotate the globes to follow the seasons starting with table 1 - Summer for the Northern Hemisphere. It's also recommended to affix them to the tables to keep students from moving them during the exercise.