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Prochnow, Dave. 101 Outer Space Projects for the Evil Genius. US: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics, 2007.

101 Outer Space Projects for the Evil Genius

Authors: Dave Prochnow

Published:  April 2007

eISBN: 9780071510059 0071510052 | ISBN: 9780071485487
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  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Space Is the Place
  • Chapter 1. Let’s Go Where No Evil Genius Has Gone Before
  • Project 1. How to Take a Heading
  • Project 2. Make Your Own Maps
  • Project 3. How to Determine Altitude
  • Project 4. How to Determine Speed
  • Project 5. How to Determine Acceleration
  • Project 6. How to Use Google™ Earth
  • Project 7. How to Get Found When You’re Lost
  • Project 8. How to Know the Lat/Long of It
  • Project 9. How to Use a GPS Device
  • Project 10. Waypoints, Nav Points, and End Points
  • Chapter 2. 3–2–1, Blast Off
  • Project 11. A Plan for a Rocket Fighter
  • Project 12. How to Design Your Own Rocket
  • Project 13. Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz, ZOOM
  • Project 14. Build a Hydrogen-Oxide Rocket
  • Project 15. Put Your Own Eye in the Sky
  • Project 16. Bring ’Em Back—Rocket Recovery
  • Project 17. Get Higher with Boosters and Multistaged Rockets
  • Project 18. Test Before You Fly
  • Project 19. A Plan for a Scale Rocket Glider with Remote Control
  • Project 20. Launch Effects on Living Critters
  • Chapter 3. Take a Left at Alpha Centauri
  • Project 21. Night of the Trifids
  • Project 22. Find a Starry Night
  • Project 23. Build a Star Catalog
  • Project 24. Explore Deep Space
  • Project 25. Take a 3-D Adventure into Space
  • Chapter 4. Make Contact
  • Project 26. Build a Radio That Doesn’t Require Power
  • Project 27. Build a Shortwave Radio
  • Project 28. Add an Antenna
  • Project 29. Build an Antenna for Star Listening
  • Project 30. By Jove, Now You’ve Got It
  • Project 31. Use a Commercial Receiver for Radio Astronomy
  • Project 32. Listen to the Sun
  • Project 33. How to Graph Your Star Sounds
  • Project 34. Group Listening
  • Project 35. Share Your Sounds with Podcasts
  • Chapter 5. On Your Mark, Get SETI
  • Project 36. Going BOINC
  • Project 37. Running SETI@home
  • Project 38. Setting SETI@home Loose
  • Project 39. Team SETI
  • Project 40. Building a Giant SETI Ant Farm
  • Chapter 6. You Can’t Tell the Stars Without a Map
  • Project 41. How to Address Your Attitude
  • Project 42. How to Figure Degrees with Your Fingers
  • Project 43. Create Your Own Star Map
  • Project 44. Manage the Pleiades
  • Project 45. How to Find a Tempest in a Teapot
  • Project 46. Create Your Own Full-Sky Star Charts
  • Project 47. Learn How to “Map” Your Telescope
  • Project 48. Decipher Constellations
  • Project 49. White Dwarfs, Supernovae, and Black Holes
  • Project 50. Pick a Ride on the Tail of a Comet
  • Chapter 7. One Eye on the Sky
  • Project 51. Ahoy Mates, I Spy a Star
  • Project 52. How to Assemble a Refractor Telescope
  • Project 53. How to Assemble a Reflector Telescope
  • Project 54. How to Assemble a Dobsonian Telescope
  • Project 55. Track Stars with Clock Drive
  • Project 56. When Two Eyes Are Better Than One
  • Project 57. Finding Celestial Bodies with a Finder
  • Project 58. How to Assemble a Professional-Grade Telescope
  • Project 59. Seeing Solar Sights
  • Project 60. How to Trail Stars
  • Project 61. Astrophotography
  • Project 62. The Ideal Star Party Kit
  • Project 63. Do-It-Yourself Deep-Sky Photography
  • Project 64. Build Your Own CCD Camera
  • Project 65. Videotaping the Night Sky
  • Chapter 8. Your First Job Is on Mars
  • Project 66. Mars Driver’s Ed 101
  • Project 67. Experiment with Feet of Tread
  • Project 68. Wheels Are for Moving
  • Project 69. Build a Solar Power Array
  • Project 70. Watch Out with a Sense of Touch
  • Project 71. Move Toward the Light
  • Project 72. Record a Martian Scream with a Sound Sensor
  • Project 73. Make Your Own Classy Chassis
  • Project 74. Tracking Your Movements
  • Project 75. Give Your Rover Some Eyes
  • Project 76. Add Night Vision to Rover’s Eyes
  • Project 77. Control Rover’s Actions with a Programmable Brain
  • Project 78. Monitor Your Sensors
  • Project 79. Motivate Your Motors
  • Project 80. Maintain Your Schedule
  • Project 81. Mission: Mars (OK, Your Backyard)
  • Project 82. Learn How to Maintain Rover’s Power Supply
  • Project 83. Program Rover to Navigate Mars
  • Project 84. Record Mission Data
  • Project 85. Recover Rover and Build Rover II
  • Chapter 9. Build Your Own ISS in Your Backyard
  • Project 86. How to Build a Geodesic Dome
  • Project 87. Skin That Sucker: Add an Exoskeleton to Your Spaceship
  • Project 88. Build Your Own Solar Power Arrays
  • Project 89. Make Some Oxygen and Get Rid of Carbon Dioxide
  • Project 90. What’s for Dinner?
  • Project 91. Learn How to Distill Water
  • Project 92. Control Your Climate
  • Project 93. Put Waste in its Place
  • Project 94. Keep Tabs on Your Mission: Monitor Yourself
  • Project 95. Set a Record: Spend 439 Days Inside Your Space Station
  • Chapter 10. You Mean the Big Dipper Isn’t an Ice Cream Cone?
  • Project 96. Plan a Trip to the Moon, Alice
  • Project 97. How to Show the Phases of the Moon
  • Project 98. Build a Home Planetarium
  • Project 99. Add a Meteor to Your Planetarium
  • Project 100. Take Your Planetarium Outdoors for a Real Star Show
  • Chapter 11. OK, Go Make Your Own Heavenly Bodies
  • Project 101. Write Your Own X-Files
  • Appendixes
  • A. Resources
  • B. A Celestial Almanac
  • Index