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Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook

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Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook

Overview of this book

The Raspberry Pi Zero, one of the most inexpensive, fully-functional computers available, is a powerful and revolutionary product developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The Raspberry Pi Zero opens up a new world for the makers out there. This book will give you expertise with the Raspberry Pi Zero, providing all the necessary recipes that will get you up and running. In this book, you will learn how to prepare your own circuits rather than buying the expensive add–ons available in the market. We start by showing you how to set up and manage the Pi Zero and then move on to configuring the hardware, running it with Linux, and programming it with Python scripts. Later, we integrate the Raspberry Pi Zero with sensors, motors, and other hardware. You will also get hands-on with interesting projects in media centers, IoT, and more.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Interfacing a temperature humidity sensor using bit-banging


Digital temperature and humidity sensors are quite common in the Internet of Things world. They are rather inexpensive and provide an easy way to record accurate temperature and humidity readings. Using a technique called "bit-banging," we can retrieve a digital signal that will tell our Raspberry Pi Zero both the temperature and relative humidity.

Getting ready

All you'll need is a digital temperature and humidity sensor and a 10 KOhm resistor. There is one included in the Elego kit, and most of the ones you'll find online operate the same way.

To test the device, I used the pydht2 tool in the Python library, installed using sudo pip install pydht2.

How to do it...

  1. Connect your sensor to the Raspberry Pi Zero, as shown here:

    Note

    A lot of Digital Sensors expect and provide 5 Volts for input and output, respectively. Check your sensor's data sheet to find out what voltages are supported. If you have a 5V sensor, you can easily integrate...