Mini-Notebook: Magnets and Magnetic Sensor Projects (1998) Engineer's Mini-Notebook: Solar Cell Projects (1999) Electronics Learning Lab, Workbook 1 (2000) Electronics Learning Lab, Workbook 2 (2000) Electronic Sensors Lab (2001) Sun and Sky Monitoring Station (2003) Other Model Rocket Telemetry (MITS, 1969) Semiconductor Diode Lasers (with Ralph Campbell, Sams, 1972) Light Emitting Diodes (Sams, 1973) LED Circuits and Projects (Sams, 1973) Electronic Calculators (with H. Edward Roberts, Sams, 1974) Optoelectronics (Sams, 1975) 816 Calculator Assembly Manual (MITS, 1970) Altair 8800 Operator's Manual (MITS, 1975) How to Protect Your CB Rig (Sams, 1976) Electronic Circuitbook 1, Project Construction (Sams, 1976) Electronic Circuitbook 5, LED Projects (Sams, 1976) Home Computers (Consumer Guide, 1978) Number Machines (David McKay, 1977) Lasers, the Incredible Light Machines (David McKay, 1977) What to Look for Before You Buy an Advanced Calculator (Hewlett-Packard, 1976) The Programming Book (Hewlett-Packard, 1976) The Beginner's Handbook of Electronics (with George Olsen, Prentice-Hall, 1980) Light-beam Communications (Sams, 1975) A Practical Introduction to Lightwave Communications (IEEE & Sams, 1982) 103 Projects for Electronics Experimenters (Tab, 1981) The Forrest Mims Circuit Scrapbook (McGraw-Hill, 1983) Reference Data for Radio Engineers (Major Contributor, ITT Publishing, 1975) The New American Academic Encyclopedia (Major Contributor, Arete, 1979) Law and the Writer (Contributor, Writer's Digest Books, 1978) Siliconnections (McGraw-Hill, 1985) The Computer Scientist (Osborne/McGraw-hill, 1985) VHS-1 Sun Photometer (TERC, 1996 and National Science Teachers Association, 1996) Fifty Years of Monitoring a Changing Atmosphere - The Story of Hawaii's Mauna Loa Observatory (University of Hawaii Press, 2010) External links Forrest Mims's science page Mims is the author of a series of electronics puzzles Pianka controversy-related PZ Myers comments on Pianka v. Mims on Pharyngula. Commentary on the Mims and Pianka controversy by James Redford. Mims, Forrest M. Discovery Institute fellows and advisors American scientists 1944 births Living people Fellows of the International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design People from Houston Texas A&M University alumni