Ben Finio’s wife plants a large vegetable garden every year but eventually grows tired of maintaining it. I can sympathise. A lot. So, Ben decided that he could use a Raspberry Pi to automate the watering process. He has set…
Category: Environment
Find a car parking space with the Raspberry Pi
Humphrey Shotton and Nicholas Sanders identified that one of the causes of pollution in cities is that hundreds, possibly thousands, of cars routinely search for a parking space during morning rush hour. To help with this, they’ve developed a system which…
Control your terrarium with a Raspberry Pi and Energenie
A terrarium really is a beautiful thing. Tom Bennet has placed a temperature sensor inside his terrarium box and then hooked up a Raspberry Pi to it. The Pi controls an Energenie home automation switch to maintain the environment inside. Take…
Indian students’ air pollution network uses Raspberry Pi to bring it all together
Students at the National Institute of Technology in Karnataka, India, are using a Raspberry Pi to bring together air quality readings and make them available on the internet. The students (Richie John, Shishir Sheshadri and Aparna Velampudi, who are studying Electronics…
Swarming robot boats powered by Raspberry Pis
Dr Anders Lyhne Christensen, from BioMachines Lab of the Institute of Telecommunications in Portugal has developed a swarm of aquatic robots and they are all powered by Raspberry Pis. They communicate with each other over an adhoc wireless network. The boats…
Track the next high tide with a Raspberry Pi
Richard Saville (aka Average Man) lives in Southend-on-Sea, which puts him on the East coast of England. He has taken one of his prototyping boards (the ProtoPal) and the components contained in the RasPiO 7 segment display kit and created a…
Building a water meter for your home with a Raspberry Pi
David Schneider lives in North Carolina, but used to live in California. Both States have suffered from water shortages to a lesser or greater extent and so he decided to implement a water meter system using an Arduino (to take…
Make your own weather station with some sensors and a Raspberry Pi
Jeremy Morgan has recently been tinkering with a bunch of sensors attached to a Raspberry Pi, out of which he has made a ‘weather station‘. The station measures temperature (several different ways!), humidity, barometric (atmospheric) pressure and light levels/luminosity (lux). He…
Basement storage temperature and humidity monitor with a Raspberry Pi
A basement full of old books but no way to monitor humidity and temperature. Enter a Raspberry Pi. This hacker has put together a DHT22 sensor and an LCD screen with the Pi in order to monitor environmental conditions in…
Detecting pollution with a duck and a Raspberry Pi
Teenagers Ben Hope, Harri Bell-Thomas and Benedict Allen from Monmouth teamed up at Young Rewired State’s Festival of Code at the end of July to create Buoy. Buoy is a small, autonomous boat shaped like a duck which records environmental conditions on…