Raspberry Pi Environmental Monitoring

A hands-on textbook for middle and high school students. You will build a Raspberry Pi station that measures temperature, pressure, and humidity, records the readings unattended, and reports them from wherever you put it — then learn to read the data critically enough to know when the station is lying to you.

No prior experience with programming, Linux, or electronics is needed. This book teaches all of it.

Getting Started

This is an intelligent textbook built with MkDocs Material. Use the navigation sidebar on the left to explore chapters, the learning graph, MicroSims, and supporting reference content.

Front Matter

• About — audience, prerequisites, and how to read the book
• Course Description — the seed document used to generate the learning graph

Chapters

The main body of the book lives under Chapters. Each chapter has its own folder with a two-digit prefix (e.g. 01-introduction).

Learning Graph

The Learning Graph shows how concepts depend on each other. Concepts are introduced in dependency order so prerequisites are always covered before they are used.

MicroSims

Interactive simulations live under MicroSims. Each MicroSim focuses on one concept and is embeddable as an iframe inside chapter content.