AstroPiQuake
AstroPiQuake gathers environment data using SenseHat and Raspberry Pi
AstroPi flies onboard the International Space Station (ISS) keeping astronauts update-to-date about their environment. Here on Earth, you can monitor your local environment data and detect earthquakes using a clone of AstroPi called "AstroPiQuake"
Try out the AstroPiQuake emulator. Move the temperature slider to see Smiley's face change colors from cool blue to mellow yellow to red hot. Take a look at earthquake detection. Grab AstroPiQuake with your mouse and shake it. Watch the graph change as it detects you simulating an earthquake.
Sensing environment data
Sense Hat has temperature and humidity sensors. It can sense the barometric pressure. It has an IMU or Inertial Measurement Unit with an accelerometer that measures acceleration forces, a gyroscope that measures momentum and rotation, and a magnetometer that measures the Earth’s own magnetic field, similar to a compass. Here are the technical specifications.
Accelerometer and gyroscope data are measured using coordinates. These are sometimes referred to as yaw, pitch, and roll.
x is yaw or rotation about the x-axis
y is pitch or rotation about the y-axis
z is roll or rotation about the z-axis
Building your own AstroPiQuake
Building your own AstroPiQuake environment sensor
Configuring AstroPiQuake and installing software
Optional: running AstroPiQuake in headless mode
Gathering data
Saving sensor data in a MySQL table
Investigating your data
Charting your AstroPiQuake data on ThingSpeak