Chapter 13 Online Temperature Tracker

Ingredients

  • 1 Arduino
  • 1 Arduino USB cable
  • 1 Arduino power supply
  • 1 breadboard
  • Your computer
  • A home wifi network and the password for it
  • A web browser

Special items

  • Your assembled SparkFun WiFi Shield
  • 1 thermistor (model TMP36)

When explorers sailed the seven seas finding new (to them) places, plants, and peoples, they often kept careful logs—a diary noting the day, the time, and what they observed. Arduinos may not be seaworthy, but they are excellent at logging their observations. With this project, we’ll get Arduino logging and we’ll put that log online.

Concepts: Logging and Charting Sensor Data Online

Keeping track of observations is super useful. With lots of observations over time, you can ...

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