Parallelism in Hacking

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.