Introduction
In the previous tutorial I showed you how to build a weather station using only the DHT11 sensor and I said the readings from this sensor is fairly accurate. In this tutorial, I will be using the DHT11 to measure only the humidity and BMP180 to measure pressure and temperature. That’s because its readings are more accurate than the DHT11 temperature readings.
Project Parts
I will be adding only the BMP180 sensor to the list in the previous tutorial.
1. BMP180 barometric pressure/temperature sensor.
2. DHT11 temperature and humidity sensor.
3. 16×2 LCD keypad shield.
4. Arduino Mega.
5. Breadboard.
6. Jumper wires.
7. Resistors.
The BMP180 is the new digital barometric pressure sensor from Bosch Sensortec, with a very high performance and it uses the I2C (pronounced I-squared- C or I-two- C) protocol. This digital sensor can measure barometric pressure, temperature and altitude.
This sensor is a four pin device, the first pin is labelled VCC, second pin GND and the last two are the clock (SCL) and data (SDA) pins. You can purchase this sensor here.
The DHT11 is something we are familiar with, it has been used in couple of our tutorials here as a low cost temperature and humidity sensor that operates using the 1-wire protocol. It costs about $2 and you can get it here.
The readings from this sensor are fairly accurate, so we will be using this sensor to only measure humidity since the BMP180 gives more accurate temperature readings.
This sensor has three pins, the first which is the power pin VCC, next pin which is the middle one, which is the signal out or DATA pin and lastly the ground pin labelled GND.
Yes, we will also be using the 16×2 LCD keypad shield as used in the previous tutorial. This shield makes connecting the 16×2 LCD module to any system quite easy, as it simply just plugs on the Arduino mega which is being used for this project. You can get this shield here.
Read more: Arduino Weather Station with DHT11 and BMP180
