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Introduction
The ESP32 Environment Sensor Shield provides sensors and hookups for monitoring environmental conditions. This tutorial will show you how to connect your sensor suite to the Internet and post weather data online.
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The SparkFun ESP32 Thing Environment Sensor Shield provides sensors and hookups for monitoring environmental conditions.
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Required Materials
You'll need the ESP32 Thing board to interface with this shield. Other microcontroller boards will work, but since the shield is designed to stack on the ESP32 Thing, interfacing with them will be difficult.
You'll also need some means of connecting the two boards together. While it's possible to solder them together using snappable male header pins, it makes good sense to use female headers on one of the boards board so the boards can be separated again later if needed.
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PRT-00115
Single row of 40-holes, female header. Can be cut to size with a pair of wire-cutters. Standard .1" spacing. We use them exte…
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A row of headers - break to fit. 40 pins that can be cut to any size. Used with custom PCBs or general custom headers.
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The SparkFun ESP32 Thing is a comprehensive development platform for Espressif’s ESP32, their super-charged version of the …
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The ESP32 Environment Sensor Shield comes with connections for our weather station. You may also wish to add a soil moisture sensor, which you'll need two three-position 3.5mm screw terminals and enough wire to connect the sensor to the board.
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SEN-13322
A simple breakout for measuring the moisture in soil and similar materials. The exposed pads function together acting as a va…
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Screw Terminal 3.5mm pitch pins with slide-locking together to form any size you need. Rated up to 125V @ 6A, and can accept …
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Whether you're an agriculturalist, a professional meteorologist or a weather hobbyist, building your own weather station can …
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Tools
At a minimum, you'll need a soldering iron and some solder. You may need a small screwdriver for attaching the wire to the screw terminals between the soil moisture sensor and the sensor shield. Our pocket screwdriver and screwdriver kit both have bits that will work wonderfully for that purpose. They're also just handy to keep around!
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This is your basic tube of unleaded (Pb-free) solder with a no clean, water soluble resin core. 0.031" gauge and 15 grams
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There's nothing worse than getting ready for a good hack and then realizing that you can't even get the box open because you …
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What should every hacker have available to them? That's right, a screwdriver (you have to get into those cases somehow). What…
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This is a very simple fixed temp, quick heating, 30W 110/120 VAC soldering iron. We really enjoy using the more expensive iro…
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Suggested Reading
If you have not yet used the ESP32 Thing Development Board, check out this guide first.
ESP32 Thing Hookup Guide
An introduction to the ESP32 Thing's hardware features, and a primer on using the WiFi system-on-chip in Arduino.
If you intend to use wind and rain Weather Meters with your ESP32 Environment Sensor Shield, check out our Weather Meter Assembly Guide.
If you aren't familiar with the following concepts, we recommend checking out these tutorials before continuing.
I2C
An introduction to I2C, one of the main embedded communications protocols in use today.