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Arduino Project Handbook
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Arduino Project Handbook

by Mark Geddes
June 2016
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
5h 4m
English
No Starch Press
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Project 13: Weather Station

In this project you’ll set up a weather station to measure temperature and humidity, and display the values on an LCD screen.

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PARTS REQUIRED

• Arduino board

• Breadboard

• Jumper wires

• 50k-ohm potentiometer

• 16x2 LCD screen (Hitachi HD44780 compatible)

• DHT11 humidity sensor

LIBRARIES REQUIRED

• LiquidCrystal

• DHT

HOW IT WORKS

The humidity sensor used in this project is the relatively cheap DHT11, shown in Figure 13-1, which measures both humidity and temperature. It uses a capacitive humidity sensor and resistive-type ...

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