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France-based Hexalyse<\/a>\u00a0has hooked up an\u00a0AS3935 Franklin Lightning Sensor<\/a>\u00a0to his Raspberry Pi. This sensor is able to detect the approach of a storm by detecting lightning up to 40km away and it comes on a little breakout board that can interact with the Pi over the I2C bus. He used a library that someone else had written<\/a>\u00a0and Python to detect the lightning flashes and, if certain circumstances are satisfied (such as number of strikes within a time frame), the system Tweets via the Tweepy library<\/a>. He’s uploaded the code to GitHub<\/a> and written up the project on his blog<\/a>. You can get hold of the sensor from Embedded Adventures<\/a>\u00a0(although I’m sure it can be found elsewhere too).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

France-based Hexalyse\u00a0has hooked up an\u00a0AS3935 Franklin Lightning Sensor\u00a0to his Raspberry Pi. This sensor is able to detect the approach of a storm by detecting lightning up to 40km away and it comes on a little breakout board that can interact…<\/p>\n

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