Tinkerforge

The second post of this series describes the RasperryPi that is connected to the sensors and used to record the data.

Hardware

As described in the first part, I decided to use sensors from Tinkerforge as they are comparatively cheap, require no soldering, no electrical know how and they also provide a convenient API to get the data from the sensors. Ideal for people like me who want to spend more time with using the data instead of playing around with wires, resistors, etc.

The required hardware was just.

Raspberry Pi (including a case, Wifi USB Stick, SDCard, power supply)
Usb Cable to connect the RaspberryPi with the sensors
Sensors
- 1x Master Brick
- 1x Ambient Light Sensor
- 1x Barometer Sensor
- 1x Humidity Sensor
- 1x Temperature Sensor
- 4x bricklet cables to connect the sensors to the Master Brick
- 2x Mounting plates
- Some sets of screws
- NO soldering iron
Overall between 90 and 100€ (excluding the Pi) but it saved me a lot of time.

Continue reading RaspberryPi Weatherstation – The Sensor Station (Part II)

Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3

History

For quite some time I’ve been playing with the thought about bying a Raspberry Pi. Yet the biggest issue was: I had no use case for it!

I always liked information about the weather – especiallly I wanted to know in the morning how cold it was at night etc. So the use case was found: a weather station! Yet I was pretty distracted from all examples that I found on the web as I wanted a visually appealing UI so that it is fun to look at the data. Usually the samples just controlled a small LED display to display some values but – honestly – I don’t need a display at the weatherstation directly – I mean – shouldn’t it be somewhere outside and not in the room?

Continue reading My first RaspberryPi project: TV-Controlled Weatherstation (Part I)