Tag: CDC

CDC: The Install

CDC: Time to Install The Hardware

At this point in the project I’ve managed to prove I can program a Raspberry Pi to read the data from a Bosch BMP180 sensor and upload that data to Plot.ly and the Met Office. Alas the BMP180 sensor isn’t applicable to the Creekside Discovery Centre installation. Although I could weather proof the sensor I still need to measure water temperature. I have managed to buy, install and code the Pi to see the i2c bus that attaches to the GPIO pins and run some simple Python script that displays temperature readings from the Pi’s ROM. But I haven’t managed to crack publishing the data . But as someone once said…

“Time and Tide Wait for no Man”

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CDC: Pi

CDC Pi Weather Station Build

The Creekside Discovery Centre Weather Station

Following the excellent work already done by Romilly Close, who setup the Sheffield Pi Station, I’m now embarking on my own ‘Deptford Pi Station’ at the Creekside Discovery Centre (CDC). The image captures some of the basic hardware I’ve invested in. Added to this will be a ribbon cable and perhaps a breadboard to help connect everything. The Pi will feed the data via ethernet back to a server and onto the web. Everything will be photographed, labeled and uploaded soon. But so far there’s…

 

Pi Weather Station

Beginnings of the ‘Deptford Pi Weather Station’

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