Some people look at a board, and all they see is a mess of components and sensors, but makers see the world in a different light. Where others may see electronic chaos, we see possibilities.
Take the Environment-101 multisensor board, for example. This Arduino-Uno board is built around a plug & play concept that can be quickly integrated into your environmental monitoring projects.
The design puts aside complicated things like wiring, breadboards, voltage levels, and pull up resistors. Instead, it favors a very simple and effective approach: stack the board on top of an Arduino Uno and start to measure a wide variety of variables from a single board.
Things like temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, altitude, UV-index, ambient light, and even infrared intensity are all possible to measure with the suite of sensors included on this board.
The open-source libraries currently available for the DIY community allow you to select drivers that correspond to the sensors on the Environment-101, so you can quickly get started on developing your applications. You can find an excellent resource for locating drivers here.
Combining this board with an Arduino Uno and a portable battery supply allows you to create standalone measurement and display unit for a variety of indoor and outdoor uses. The possibilities are substantial, but some examples include greenhouse monitoring, air quality measurement, weather forecasting, and UV alerts.
If it involves the environment, it’s very likely that the Environment-101 board can measure and monitor it for you.
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