I spent yesterday morning working on the datalogger, specifically making it WiFi capable. This morning, I slept in, made my coffee and checked the news. Over on Hackaday, Jose has created an Arduino/Pi/WiFi/X-Bee environmental monitor. He's got his own webspace, uc4fun, where he's hosting the notes on his project. A lot more professional looking than mine.
He's essentially doing my project (If he knows I exist, he's shaking his head saying "That guy's doing MY project"). However, he's doing it in a completely different fashion, which is awesome. I think he's using a mix of I2C sensors (he's using the TMP102 and the BMP085) and a Sparkfun humidity sensor (Dude! New Product Friday.... 'cuse me while I go browse...).
I think he went with the doubled up microprocessor approach because it allows him to use the ADC's on the Arduino. So far, I've been severely limited in the sensors I can use on my build because I'm only using I2C and binary digital sensors. His complexity gets him some serious advantages, but is also one of the main things I want to avoid (He's probably writing code for both the Arduino and the Pi. That'll give me headaches). I sent him a message on the Hackaday board asking why he made the choices he did. Looking at his build and presentation, he's going to have some good answers.
I definitely wanted to avoid the multiple radio links. Given my history with RF links, I'd like to keep that as simple as possible.
