Raspberry Pi Projects

This lesson creates and formats charts with the temperature and humidity information. The charts will display the current day’s temperature and humidity. To do this we will filter our query for sensor readings gathered today.

In this lesson, we explore automation with Google Apps Script. The automation is helpful if we intend to run our weather station project for several weeks. The automation with Google Apps Script will update the formatting of the date information. With automation, we will split the date information and the conversion from Celsius to Fahrenheit.

Before we organize the data we need to attend to some formatting. The date and time recorded in the spreadsheet look a little confusing. We will format the date and time information. Google sheets have functions to split the information into cells. We are going to use this function to split the date information into date and time columns.

I cover the process for transferring the file to the Pi using Mac and Windows. The transfer on these operating systems is done through the command line. Chromebook doesn’t a similar command for its command line. We will use our GitHub account to download the file onto the Pi.

There is a sample script that is part of the DHT package we downloaded in a previous lesson. We will modify this file to send the sensor data to the Google Sheet.

In this fifth lesson, we will create a Google account. The account is necessary to create and enable the APIs for our project. An Application Program Interface provides a way for us to access Google services. We need access to our Google Sheets account. We also need access to Google Drive. The access permits the Python program on our Pi to send information to a Google Sheet. Google provides a special file. This file is used by our script to access the Google Sheet for our project.

In this lesson, we connect the DHT 11 temperature and humidity sensor to the Raspberry Pi. The sensor is attached to a breadboard. Leads are used to connect the sensor pins to the GPIO pins on the Raspberry Pi. On the Pi, we download the DHT sensor library from Adafruit. The library has an example code to test the sensor. We will edit the example to read the sensor information.

This is lesson three of our weather station project with a Raspberry Pi. In these lessons, you will learn how to Find the Raspberry Pi’s IP address Login into the Pi with SSH Update the Pi location and time zone Update the Raspbian operating system Install applications and services Shutdown the Raspberry Pi

This is the second lesson in our weather station project. These are the steps covered in the lesson. Download the Raspbian operating system (lite version). Flash the image onto the MicroSD card. Create an SSH file to access the Raspberry Pi remotely. Create a configuration file to connect with your Wifi.

Weather station project using a Raspberry Pi. The Pi collects information from a temperature and humidity sensor. This lesson describes the project. The needed items for the project are outlined. The MicroSD card is formatted using the command line on MacOS and Windows 10. We also format the drives using Disk Utility, Windows formatting tools, and the Chromebook Recovery Utility. The drive is formatted for the creation of the Raspberry Pi boot image.