{"id":17510,"date":"2017-08-19T16:11:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T15:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17510"},"modified":"2017-08-19T16:11:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T15:11:01","slug":"use-a-raspberry-pi-and-the-sensehat-to-create-a-mini-weather-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17510","title":{"rendered":"Use a Raspberry Pi and the SenseHAT to create a mini-weather station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/raspberry-pi-weather-station-2.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17511\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/raspberry-pi-weather-station-2.png?resize=560%2C467&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/raspberry-pi-weather-station-2.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/raspberry-pi-weather-station-2.png?resize=300%2C250&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/raspberry-pi-weather-station-2.png?resize=560%2C467&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/raspberry-pi-weather-station-2.png?resize=260%2C217&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/raspberry-pi-weather-station-2.png?resize=160%2C133&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ville Salminen has written a nice tutorial over on his blog in which he takes a Raspberry Pi, adds a <a href=\"https:\/\/thepihut.com\/products\/raspberry-pi-sense-hat-astro-pi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SenseHAT<\/a> and then programs it to access the SenseHAT sensors to create a mini-weather station. He uses Flask to create a simple web interface, so there&#8217;s plenty to learn here. <a href=\"https:\/\/thepi.io\/set-raspberry-pi-weather-station-using-sense-hat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the tutorial here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ville Salminen has written a nice tutorial over on his blog in which he takes a Raspberry Pi, adds a SenseHAT and then programs it to access the SenseHAT sensors to create a mini-weather station. 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