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Weather Station

So when COVID broke out in 2020 I stated a crazy idea to build a Weather Station using a Raspberry Pi and a number of sensors. Find my ramblings here about how I built it. How many peices it took and the reason I bought a $90 Bunnings one to replace it all.

Raspberry Pi Documentation

Raspberry Pi's are a credit card sized computer. It runs a Linux operating system, but has a very large range of Input pins to expand them. They make perfect devices for small sensors and low power projects. Find some documentaion here about how I set them out quickly and easily to connect to Wifi and sensors.

ESP8266 Getting Started

Small microcontrollers are the best. They have a CPU, some memory and some IO ports. They run a small C or Python program and can do simple tasks like check a sensor and send the details via mqtt or similar to another host. The tech area here has some info on getting started and the IDE to use.