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Raspberry Pi Sensors

You're reading from   Raspberry Pi Sensors Integrate sensors into your Raspberry Pi projects and let your powerful microcomputer interact with the physical world

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784393618
Length 192 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rushi Gajjar Rushi Gajjar
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Meeting Your Buddy – the Raspberry Pi FREE CHAPTER 2. Meeting the World of Electronics 3. Measuring Distance Using Ultrasonic Sensors 4. Monitoring the Atmosphere Using Sensors 5. Using an ADC to Interface any Analog Sensor with the Raspberry Pi 6. Uploading Data Online – Spreadsheets, Mobile, and E-mails 7. Creating an Image Sensor Using a Camera and OpenCV A. Shopping List Index

Uploading data on Google spreadsheets


We are all set with the synced time to the local time zone. We can create an application that does the same data logging as we did in the previous chapter, but this time it is different and cool. We will upload the data on Google spreadsheets, and the data can then be accessed from any corner of the world. You can monitor home temperature and humidity by sitting in your office. Either you can grab the project you did in Chapter 4, Monitoring the Atmosphere Using Sensors, and observe the temperature and humidity with the DHT11 sensor, or you can just bring the sensor station built in the previous chapter using MCP3008.

Before we get into the code, we need to prepare the things listed here. Use your personal computer's Internet browser to perform these steps:

  1. Log in to your Gmail account or create a new one.

  2. Open or link Google Drive by logging onto http://www.drive.google.com with your Gmail ID.

  3. In the user interface of Google Drive, on the left-side panel...

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