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Guy Marsden
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5 minute Podcast for Onset
"Monitoring Domestic Solar Hot Water Heating System Efficiency with Data Loggers"
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Summary: Guy explains how he used a HOBO data logger to monitor the efficiency of a domestic solar hot water heating system.
 Inventor's Digest Magazine
February 2008, page 24-5
"Flip the switch..."
Inventor's Digest cover 2-08 ID aticle 2-08 My article discusses electronic product development and stresses keeping it simple.

Renewable Radio
WERU 89.9FM
Blue Hill, Maine

WERU

Renewable Radio show
June 1 2007

(streaming MP3)

Live, call-in radio show hosted by Dave Evans in which we answered questions about  solar heat, solar power and a solar-powered lawn mower.
Home Power Magazine
"Solar Heat UPGRADE"
June/July 2007, pages 88-92
My article describes my learning experiences with my home built solar augmented heating system over the last 6 years.
Woodturning Design Magazine
"Improved Sandmaster"
Fall 2006, pages 79-82
My article shows how to construct a new head for the Sorby Sandmaster tool that contains ball bearing support for the shaft.
Servo Magazine
"Hacking a Zip-Zap
for remote control"
August 2006, pages 72-4
My article describes how to repurpose the remote control electronics in a radio controlled toy.

The Coastal Journal
Midcoast, Maine
June 22, 2006
The "Then" and "Now" of using the sun's energy

Article in local weekly paper features my solar heating and solar powered lawn mower.
THE TIMES RECORD
BRUNSWICK, MAINE

September 2, 2005
"He plugs his lawnmower into the sun"
Article in local paper about the lawn mower that I converted to run on solar electric power.
The Enterprise
March 20, 2005
"Against all odds - Mainer actually made money on his invention"
Article on cover of Sunday MONEY section features me as a rare example of an inventor who profits from his idea.
Portland Press Herald
March 4, 2005
"Maine inventor sees rare profit"
Article in Business section features me as a rare example of an inventor who profits from his idea.
IEEE Control Systems Magazine
October 2004, page 65
"Low-Cost Magnetic
Levitation Project Kits"
IEEE Control Systems Magazine October 2004 cover

Authors: K.H. Lundberg, K.A. Lillienkamp, G.T. Marsden.

Paper describes the use of an inexpensive experiment to teach analysis and design in undergraduate feedback courses.

 Inventor's Digest Magazine
Oct.-Dec. 2004, page 27
"Less Can Be More"
Inventor's Digest Magazine Oct./Nov./Dec. 2004 cover My article explains that
sometimes it's practical to skip the patent process altogether and just get down to making money.
Natural Resources Council of Maine
June 2004
Global Warming in Maine: Warning Signs, Winning Solutions
Global Warming in Maine - Warning Signs, Winning Solutions Color booklet features my solar heated workshop as an example of a solution on page 21.
Servo Magazine
"Sonar Mapping Subsystem for Mobile Robotic Platforms"
December 2003, pages 14-18
My construction and theory article.
American Woodturner
Winter 2003  Vol.18, No.4 pages 42-3
Gallery pages featuring my turned wood art
Nuts & Volts Magazine
Sept. 2003, pages 58-61
"Levitation!
Float objects in a servo controlled magnetic field"
Nuts & Volts Sept. 2003 Cover Article page 1 My construction article describes how to build a working electromagnetic 
levitation control circuit.

 Leonardo Magazine
#36, No. 4, p.263, (2003)
Artwork: "Eight-Bit Ant Farm" in Gallery Section

Review and gallery feature from exhibition at Dorsky Museum SUNY, New Paltz, New York. August - November 2002
Woodwork Magazine
October 2003, page 48
Features my turned wood piece 
"Millstone Oracle"
in the Gallery section
 Inventor's Digest Magazine
January/February 2003, pages 48-9
"Great Timing (Uh...almost)"
Inventor's Digest magazine cover
Article about an invention prototype that I built that turned out to already have been patented, and was on the market.
Maine Sunday Telegram
Sunday, December 22, 2002
Remembering Berrigan

scan of article
"Guy Marsden, a Quaker for Peace, takes part in a rally outside Bath Iron Works on Saturday honoring late peace activist Philip Berrigan."  By Ted Cohen
HOME POWER MAGAZINE
June/July 2002, pages 34-43
My article about the solar heated radiant floor heating system that I built for my barn workshop.
THE TIMES RECORD
BRUNSWICK, MAINE

March 13, 2002
Cover of Business Section  "Left brain,  right business"
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Times Record 3/14/02 Feature interview about my business by Bob Kalish
Woodwork Magazine
August 2001, page 48
Gallery page featuring 4 of my furniture designs
WIRED MAGAZINE
8.08  August 2000
Image of my mail in electronic art piece on p.43
"Digital Numeric Relevator Mark XX"
SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS  
WEST MAGAZINE

October 12, 1997
"Sculpting by Numbers"
Review of my electronic art by Bob Frost.
RESIDENTIAL LIGHTING
November 1997
Cover image shows Pagoda Lamp design, page 44 features Tulip Lamp design.
SCULPTURE MAGAZINE
March 1996, pages 30-1
"Gallery Robots on the Internet"
My article about engineering Joel Slayton's video surveillance art installation.
(see his web site )
SIGNS OF THE TIMES MAGAZINE
October 1996, pages 110-113+
by Christian Schiess
"Combining Art and Electronic Technology"
6 page pictorial interview with me about my artwork.
NUTS & VOLTS MAGAZINE
July 1995, pages 47-48
"Checking Battery Condition..."
Basic Stamp article
by Scott Edwards

Uses my clever trick for battery voltage monitoring for robotics using low cost parts.
SCULPTURE MAQUETTE MAGAZINE
September 1994, pages 16-17
"Engineering A Light Sculpture"
My article about engineering Milton Komisar's public artwork, installed in Chicago.

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