Java on the Raspberry Pi: Develop Java Programs to Control Devices for Robotics, IoT, and Beyond

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G. FlurryJava on the Raspberry Pihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7264-0_11

11. An Environmental Sensor

Greg Flurry¹  

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Austin, TX, USA

 

In this chapter, we’ll produce a device library for a commonly used IoT device – an environmental sensor. For this book, I chose the Bosch BME280, which measures humidity, pressure, and temperature. The BME280 is a hugely popular sensor, and you can find many breakout boards built with the sensor that make it very easy to include in your project.

In this chapter, I’ll discuss

• The joy of finding that diozero supports your device!

• Some of the differences between reading from and writing to a device with I2C and SPI

• The benefits ...