Describes the types of magnetometers used to monitor solar activity
4 Minute ReadIntroduction In part 1 we covered the construction of the SAM III boards, the connections between the boards and incorporated the boards into a suitable box. In this post we […]
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6 Minute ReadIntroduction In several previous posts the physical principles describing the fluxgate magnetometer were introduced. We went on to construct a simple magnetometer based on a single fluxgate sensor, available from
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5 Minute ReadUploading the Data to a Website If you have been following so far, at this point we should have the Raspberry Pi set up, configured, and the necessary program modules
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11 Minute ReadIntroduction Well, it has taken me a few months to get around to finishing this particular project, but here are the final sections that I have split into two parts.
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5 Minute ReadIntroduction This is the second part of a project to build an Arduino-controlled constant temperature enclosure. In the first part of the project we set up the Arduino microcontroller to
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3 Minute ReadIntroduction In previous posts the fluxgate magnetometer was described. The frequency pulses from the fluxgate sensor were captured by an Arduino microcontroller then sent to a Raspberry Pi for further
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6 Minute ReadIntroduction In Part 1 of this 4-part post, the fluxgate magnetometer (FGM) was introduced. We outlined how this device can be used to detect changes in the Earth’s geomagnetic field
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6 Minute ReadIntroduction Magnetometers are instruments used to measure magnetic fields. They have been around in different forms since the great physicist and mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss devised the first one almost
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