Jumpstarting the Onion Omega2

Chapter 3 The Tweetin’ Onion

Now that we’ve had an introduction to how the Omega2 works and how to interface with it, let’s create a few projects.

The Temperature Tweet

For the first project, I’d like you to remember the O2’s roots as an interface to the Internet of Things (IoT). With that in mind, let’s use an external sensor to read the temperature in the room, and then create a Twitter account (or use our own) and use Twitter’s API to tweet the temperature results every so often.

The temperature sensor I’m using here is the DS18B20 one-wire temperature sensor, available from both Jameco and Amazon. This one is useful because it’s small, ...