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Arduino and BMP280 Based Weather Station
Weather stations are interesting projects for beginners and very useful for expert makers. They are usually quite simple to build but also provide fairly accurate and useful weather data. We have built a couple of them in different tutorials on this website, with the difference usually...
Continue ReadingIntroducing the BMP180 barometric sensor
A how-to on using the BMP180 barometric sensor with the Arduino @ Random Nerd Tutorials: The BMP180 barometric sensor (model GY-68) is the one in the following figure (front and back view). It is a very small module with 1mm x 1.1mm (0.039in x 0.043in). It measures the absolute...
Continue ReadingUsing BMP180 for temperature, pressure and altitude measurements
Raj from Embedded Lab has posted a comprehensive tutorial on how to use BMP180 for temperature, pressure, and altitude measurements. The BMP180 is a new generation digital barometric pressure and temperature sensor from Bosch Sensortec. In this tutorial, we will briefly review this...
Continue ReadingArduino Watch With Altitude, Temperature, Compass And Pedometer
by benhur.goncalves @ instructables.com: Hi folks! Last few days I've been obsessed with the idea to make my own watch from arduino parts, but something cool I could use and say I did it myself. So I found out there was a sensor board (commonly named GY-87) which had three sensors...
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