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Raspberry Pi Blueprints

You're reading from   Raspberry Pi Blueprints Design and build your own hardware projects that interact with the real world using the Raspberry Pi

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784392901
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Raspberry Pi Pirate Radio FREE CHAPTER 2. Portable Speaker System 3. Mini Retro Arcade Cabinet 4. GPS-enabled Time-lapse Recorder 5. Home Theater PC 6. Outdoor Weather Station 7. Home Security System 8. Remote-operated Robotic Arm 9. Magic Mirror 10. Bottle Xylophone Index

Assembling the weather station


Now that our weather station is set up and takes the readings correctly, it's time to assemble the weather station and set it up outside.

Before we do this, you may want to consider how the Pi will connect to your network and receive power. Here, I would recommend you use Wi-Fi for networking. This can be set up by following the same procedure that we used in Chapter 2, Portable Speaker System. For power, I used a 10 foot micro USB cable, which was long enough to reach as far outside as I had located the weather station.

For the Maplin weather sensors, simply assemble the two masts and fix both the anemometer and wind direction sensor at the top of their own masts by using a 30 mm M3 screw. These masts can then be pushed relatively easily into the soil. Since they are not particularly tall, it is better to place them in an area as open as possible to improve the accuracy of the readings taken from them.

As an enclosure for the remaining sensors, the Arduino, and...

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