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New WeatherShield

A project log for The Moteino Framework

Automation framework based on wireless Moteino nodes.

felix-rusuFelix Rusu 01/30/2015 at 17:000 Comments

I was not happy with the performance of sensors like DS18B20 which were not only expensive for the limited functionality and accuracy they offered but also cripplingly slow (taking 1 second to read temperature, seriously Dallas?!).
So I created a new WeatherShield to measure temp/humidity/pressure accurately while also being very low power and very fast, now available to source assembled from here. These are highly accurate I2C temperature/humidity (Si7021) and atmospheric pressure (BMP180) sensors. Credit goes where it's due – this was inspired by this forum post and its author mr. A, but it's somewhat different than the one presented there. There is a sample sketch to read the data from this shield, and I will follow up with schematics and more details as they become available.

Some of the features:

These boards come at a price and instead they are precision sensors for serious weather monitoring enthusiasts and offer a set of features which makes them very battery/remote monitoring friendly and along with Moteino they can make a very small battery operated node.

Enjoy,
-Felix

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