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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  
(1)
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 ...

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