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\"GrovePi<\/p>\n

Jamie Bailey’s been in touch. Over at Initial State, they’ve been playing around with the\u00a0GrovePi Zero<\/a> by Dexter Industries<\/a>. It’s an add-on board that plugs into the Zero’s GPIO pins and gives you the ability to use Grove sensors, as pictured above. Using a couple of the sensors, Jamie has\u00a0created an Internet of Things device that reads humidity and air quality levels and then ties this into the Wunderground weather service API<\/a>. Together, this data is used to create a dashboard (as you can see above) on the Initial State website. Not only has he written the entire project out as a tutorial but he’s also given an honest review of the GrovePi Zero board including the quality, usefulness and cost of the device. It’s a really great piece of work and you can see the full tutorial and review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jamie Bailey’s been in touch. Over at Initial State, they’ve been playing around with the\u00a0GrovePi Zero by Dexter Industries. It’s an add-on board that plugs into the Zero’s GPIO pins and gives you the ability to use Grove sensors, as…<\/p>\n

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