AirPi Kit - Raspberry Pi weather station shield AirPi Kit

Oct 10, 2013 12:58




These will start shipping ~ a month after the fundraiser has finished, so you should have yours by October!
"Senses 99.9% of all known stuff" - Clive, Raspberry Pi foundation
Overview

The AirPi is a shield for the Raspberry Pi which can automatically provide information to the Raspberry Pi about temperature, humidity, air pressure, NO2 levels, CO levels, light levels and UV levels. Our code then takes this information and uploads it to a database (we let you choose which one), and the data is then aggregated on our website.
Details

We are selling the AirPi as a kit, which means that in order to assemble it you will need basic soldering skills. All the parts are through hole, which means they are easy for beginners to solder. We also include full instructions on how to assemble the kit and setup the Raspberry Pi to work with it.
Full contents of the kit:

  • The PCB (the same size as the Raspberry Pi!)
  • Temperature and Humidity sensor (DHT22)
  • Air Pressure and Temperature sensor (BMP085)
  • Carbon Monoxide (CO) sensor (MiCS-5525)
  • Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) sensor (MiCS-2710)
  • UV sensor (UVI-01)
  • Light sensor (LDR)
  • ADC for the analogue sensors (MCP3008)
  • A nice rail-to-rail Op-Amp for the UV sensor (MCP6273)
  • 2 LEDs (to show you whether its uploading to the internet or not)
  • The header for connecting to the Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins
  • All the resistors and capacitors for the sensors above (13 peices)
  • Printed instructions on how to put everything together and setup your Pi
Potential uses

  • Monitoring the indoor environment
    Several people have used our kit to monitor the indoor environment of their house, for example, to know whether their dehumidifier was working, or whether their spouse had left the lights turned on.
  • Recording data about the air quality
    The sensors which the AirPi records, whilst poor indicators of absolute NO2 or CO levels, provide quite good relative readings, enabling you to determine for certain whether or not that huge new factory across the road actually made the air worse!
  • Anything at all!
    The code on the Raspberry Pi is fully open source (on GitHub), which means you can use the AirPi shield to do anything! You can add new sensors (we expose 3 of the extra ADC connections on the board, one person has connected up a geiger counter to his in order to measure radiation), or you can just use the sensors we already have to trigger things (for example, turning on the heating when the lights are turned on).

If you want to go mobile, we also have space for a GPS module on our PCB, but we don't include it in the kit as it would increase the price too much.

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