Weather
Monitor your environment and log it to the cloud by building your own personal weather station! Or pull data from a server to check out the forecast in your area. Check out the following tutorials to start reading temperature, humidity, pressure, UV, ambient light, hazardous gases, water levels, wind speed and direction, soil moisture, TVOC, eCO2, and even lightning in your environment!
ML8511 UV Sensor Hookup Guide
March 13, 2014
Get up and running quickly with this simple to use UV sensor.
T5403 Barometric Pressure Sensor Hookup Guide
March 6, 2014
T5403 Barometric Pressure Sensor Hookup Guide
MPL3115A2 Pressure Sensor Hookup Guide
December 5, 2013
Getting started with the MPL3115A2 Pressure Sensor.
Si4707 Hookup Guide
May 29, 2013
Instructions on hooking up to and communicating with the Si4707 Weather Band Radio Breakout using an Arduino.
Creating a Humidor Control Box
March 13, 2013
Because some of our boards need to be re-humidified after reflow, we decided to make our own humidor. This tutorial will focus on how to model a project in 3D and then fabricate it using a CNC routing machine.
Old Tutorials
Looking for the old, archived tutorials? Head on over to the
archived tutorials on the main
SparkFun site.
Please be aware that the tutorials you find there are no longer
actively maintained.