I have been meaning to learn more about Arduino and other micro controllers, but my involvement in Hackerspace LA finally fired me up to do some more technology projects.
A few weeks ago I picked up an Arduino Yun, a pack of 37 sensors and started learning and playing.
Arduino Yun with temperature, humidity and light sensor in the greenhouse
I picked the Arduino Yun because I knew I was going to want to easily connect my projects to the Internet for data reporting. This board has both a Linux computer and an Arduino in one package — as well as built-in WiFi. These two systems can “bridge” together and share data in both directions and the WiFi can connect to a local network in order to reach services like IFTTT and others.
While I’ll go more in-depth on this project in future posts, here are the basics of what this system is doing right now.
- Greenhouse Temperature, Humidity and Light Level Arduino Project
- Powered by USB power bank
- Arduino Yun connected to breadboard for power and sensor data
- Local WiFi connection via Arduino Yun for data reporting
- Read Temperature and Humidity using blue sensor at top
- Read current light level using photo-resistor and converting to 100 point scale (0-100, with 0 being total darkness)
- Date and Time pulled from Linux side of Arduino Yun
- Data logged to file on internal SD Card on Arduino (can be accessed remotely via SSH)
- Data logged remotely to Google Spreadsheet via IFTTT
- Data tweeted out to @douglaswelch via IFTTT
- Data notified on iPhone via IFTTT
- Currently polling and reporting every 5 minutes
More information and projects to come!
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