{"id":17656,"date":"2017-09-28T16:02:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T15:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17656"},"modified":"2017-09-28T16:02:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T15:02:17","slug":"monitoring-the-environment-of-a-snake-with-a-raspberry-pi-the-pivarium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17656","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring the environment of a snake with a Raspberry Pi &#8211; the Pivarium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pivarium.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17658\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pivarium.jpg?resize=560%2C375&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pivarium.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pivarium.jpg?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pivarium.jpg?resize=768%2C514&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pivarium.jpg?resize=560%2C375&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pivarium.jpg?resize=260%2C174&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pivarium.jpg?resize=160%2C107&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rdhayler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Hayler<\/a> recently acquired a new pet snake which he&#8217;s called The Kernel. The Kernel is housed inside a tank and Richard wanted to monitor the temperature and humidity of the environment. So, he used a\u00a0DS18B20 waterproof temperature sensor (like you might get in the <a href=\"http:\/\/camjam.me\/edukit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CamJam EduKit 2<\/a>) and also a DHT22 humidity sensor and hooked them both up to a Raspberry Pi. He added a second Pi with a camera to keep an eye on the snake and also connected one of the Pis up to a 3D-printed door mechanism to ensure that the door was always closed after tank\/snake maintenance. All the data is uploaded to IoT service provider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.initialstate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Initial State<\/a>\u00a0and he&#8217;s used a <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.pimoroni.com\/products\/inky-phat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pimoroni Inky pHAT<\/a> to display the information locally.\u00a0You can <a href=\"https:\/\/richardhayler.blogspot.co.uk\/2017\/09\/pivarium-care-for-your-reptile-with.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">take a look at more information on Richard&#8217;s blog<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/topshed\/Pivarium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see the code and 3D printer files on GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pivarium_snake.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17657\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pivarium_snake.jpg?resize=560%2C418&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pivarium_snake.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pivarium_snake.jpg?resize=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pivarium_snake.jpg?resize=560%2C418&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pivarium_snake.jpg?resize=260%2C194&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pivarium_snake.jpg?resize=160%2C120&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Hayler recently acquired a new pet snake which he&#8217;s called The Kernel. The Kernel is housed inside a tank and Richard wanted to monitor the temperature and humidity of the environment. So, he used a\u00a0DS18B20 waterproof temperature sensor (like&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17656\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17657,"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":[2,54,16,20,26,70],"tags":[540],"class_list":["post-17656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-accessories","category-dsi-display","category-gpio-boards","category-internet-of-things","category-nature","tag-snake"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Monitoring the environment of a snake with a Raspberry Pi - the Pivarium - 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=17656\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Monitoring the environment of a snake with a Raspberry Pi - the Pivarium - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Richard Hayler recently acquired a new pet snake which he&#8217;s called The Kernel. 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