his first publication in the prestigious journal Nature (F. M. Mims III, Satellite Monitoring Error, Nature 361, 505, 1993 More than twenty of his scientific papers have been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including Nature, Science, Applied Optics, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Photochemistry and Photobiology, EOS and Research Bulletin of the American Foundation for the Blind. Mims was interviewed on The Amp Hour in episode #171 - An Interview with Forrest Mims - Snell Solisequious Scientist, where he discussed his career, the controversies, and his scientific research He was also interviewed by Hackaday (Forrest Mims, Radio Shack, And The Notebooks That Launched A Thousand Careers, and he wrote “A Citizen Science AMA” for Reddit and Slashdot Q&A. Because of his annual visits to Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory since 1992 to calibrate his atmospheric instruments, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration assigned Mims to write “Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory: Fifty Years of Monitoring the Atmosphere.” The 480-page book with 100 color plates was published by the University of Hawaii Press in 2012. Among Mims’ recent books is “Environmental Science: An Explorer’s Guide,” a 600-page book with hundreds of illustrations published by Intelligent Education (2018). The book is divided into five units: Air, Earth, Fire, Space and Water. Each unit concludes with field reports that detail Mims’ first-hand scientific experiences. Mims has also written “Make: Forrest Mims’ Science Experiments,” a 212-page book published by Makermedia (2016) that includes 30 of Mims’ science columns in Make magazine. Stepped-tone generator (Atari Punk Console) The stepped-tone generator, is a circuit that utilizes a 556 dual timer IC. The controls are two potentiometers. Mims titled the circuit "Sound Synthesizer" in 1982 then later called "Stepped-Tone Generator". The circuit creates sounds similar to a plucked violin. Electronic music experimenters begin exploring this circuit and owing to the similarity of sounds it makes to the Atari 2600, Kaustic Machines coined the name Atari Punk Console. Controversy Scientific American In May 1988, Mims wrote to Scientific American proposing that he take over The Amateur Scientist column, which needed a new editor. The magazine flew Mims to New York to discuss details but the editor had second thoughts after he learned that Mims was a practicing Christian who rejected Darwinian evolution and abortion. Harper's magazine (Paul Tough, March 1991, pp. 28-32) published a transcript of an October 4, 1989, recording of