{"id":13443,"date":"2015-09-25T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13443"},"modified":"2015-09-24T19:54:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T18:54:29","slug":"turn-the-raspberry-pi-sensehat-into-an-internet-of-things-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13443","title":{"rendered":"Turn the Raspberry Pi SenseHAT into an Internet of Things device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.initialstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-24-Foginator-2000.jpg?resize=560%2C406\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"406\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Charles Gantt has been blogging about his latest project, the Foginator 2000, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.element14.com\/community\/community\/raspberry-pi\/raspberrypi_projects\/blog\/2015\/09\/04\/foginator-2000-001-project-introduction\" target=\"_blank\">over at Element 14<\/a>. His latest instalment deals with taking readings from the SenseHAT and then sending them to the cloud via a service called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.initialstate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Initial State<\/a>. He&#8217;s written the whole thing as a tutorial so that you can replicate his experiments. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.element14.com\/community\/community\/raspberry-pi\/raspberrypi_projects\/blog\/2015\/09\/24\/foginator-2000-003-raspberry-pi-sense-hat-integration-with-initial-state\" target=\"_blank\">Read it here<\/a>. Initial State is a\u00a0<em>very<\/em> nice way of publishing readings such as those you can get from the SenseHAT and has a load of built-in visualisation tools and dashboard elements. Best of all, it&#8217;s free! 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He&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13443\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,26,39,62,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gpio-boards","category-internet-of-things","category-programming","category-sensors","category-tutorials"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Turn the Raspberry Pi SenseHAT into an Internet of Things device - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13443\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Turn the Raspberry Pi SenseHAT into an Internet of Things device - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Charles Gantt has been blogging about his latest project, the Foginator 2000, over at Element 14. 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