This project was done by Courtney Teska as part of the Howard Hughes Pre-Collegiate Summer Program. Ms. Teska interfaced an inexpensive Metex Digital Multimeter with a Radio Shack temperature probe to NS BASIC. The equipment was used to measure the temperature of the liquid inside Cup plants (Silphium perofliatum), to determine how this effects what organisms are able to live within the plants. With further aid from her sponsors, Ms. Teska has taken the equipment into the field in Indonesia to perform the research. For full information on this project, visit the Educational Resources section of www.nsbasic.com.
The Animal Tracking Project was done by Jacqlyn Edge, Andrea Foster,
Lindsay Steventon, all students in the Computer Science Department at the
University of Capetown in South Africa. They interfaced NS BASIC to a GPS
(Global Positioning System) to enable highly skilled (but illiterate)
animal
trackers to record their observations in the field. The trackers take the
units out into the wild to count animals: the program has graphic buttons
for them to tap when they spot an animal and the GPS records their current
position. For full information on this project, visit http://www.cs.uct.ac.za/~jedge/html/project/TrackFrames.html.