[dorkbotsea-blabber] Science fair - earthquake - help

[Paul Holman]

Well, if you love your son, you'll buy him a Mac:

	<http://www.suitable.com/tools/seismac.html>

pablos.

On Oct 4, 2006, at 6:49 PM, Toby Paddock wrote:

> My son is doing a science fair project on a table-top earthquake  
> machine.
> I'm looking for a CHEAP and especially EASY way to capture and display
> seismic waveforms on a computer. Most of what I'm finding on the  
> web for
> amateur seismology is either expensive or pretty complicated. And  
> I'm pretty
> cheap and lazy.
>
> I'm not worried about the sensor. We can use a MEMS accelerometer or
> coil/magnet or even a geophone if I can find one. No problem. And  
> it doesn't
> have to be real sensitive or calibrated.
>
> But the a/d and the software I don't know about. I couldn't program  
> my way
> out of a paper bag, so simple is good. 3 channels of a/d would be  
> great, 2
> would be fine, and 1 would be OK. If the software ran on win95, I  
> could use
> my $5 garage sale laptop.
>
> The earthquake stick/slip model thing is something like this:
> http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/research/deformation/modeling/eqmodel.html
>
> Thanks,
> Toby
>
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Paul Holman
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