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11. Project 4: Using Weather Sensors

Charles Bell

(1)Warsaw, Virginia, USA

Building a full-fledged IOT project requires using technologies that permit your small MicroPython board to collect and send data to services on the Internet that can store, retrieve, and visualize the data. These Internet services are often cloud-based services. Chances are, you’ve used some of these technologies without knowing. We’ve already seen an early, simple form of this in the last chapter – using an HTML server to send data to a client over the Internet.

Sending data via HTML may be fine for some projects, but projects where you may need to visualize ...

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