eternal-flame-ad/rpi-ms561101ba — explained in plain English
Analysis updated 2026-07-21 · repo last pushed 2019-03-01
Build a DIY weather station that logs local temperature and barometric pressure readings.
Create a homemade altimeter for a drone that tracks altitude based on changing air pressure.
Integrate atmospheric data into a Raspberry Pi project that triggers actions based on weather conditions.
| eternal-flame-ad/rpi-ms561101ba | 42wim/fabio | 42wim/go-xmpp | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language | Go | Go | Go |
| Last pushed | 2019-03-01 | 2018-02-04 | 2020-01-24 |
| Maintenance | Dormant | Dormant | Dormant |
| Setup difficulty | moderate | moderate | moderate |
| Complexity | 2/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| Audience | developer | ops devops | developer |
Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.
Requires WiringPi library to be installed on the Raspberry Pi and the MS5611 sensor wired to the correct GPIO pins.
This project lets a Raspberry Pi read data from an MS5611 sensor, a small component that measures barometric pressure and temperature. It's written in Go, a programming language, and gives you a straightforward way to pull accurate atmospheric readings from that specific sensor into your Raspberry Pi project. The MS5611 is a tiny sensor module often used in weather stations, drones, or altitude-tracking projects because it can detect small changes in air pressure. This code handles the communication between the Pi and the sensor, taking care of the low-level details so you don't have to. After initializing the sensor, it reads raw pressure and temperature values, then converts those into standard units, degrees Celsius and hectopascals, which is the common unit for barometric pressure. Someone would use this if they're building a DIY weather station, a homemade altimeter, or any Pi-based project that needs to know local atmospheric conditions. For example, a hobbyist drone builder could use it to track altitude, since air pressure drops predictably as you go higher. The provided example just prints the temperature and pressure readings to the screen repeatedly, but you could adapt that data to trigger actions or log it somewhere. The README is quite minimal, offering just a single code example and no setup instructions beyond the code itself. It relies on WiringPi, a popular library for controlling hardware pins on the Pi, so you'd need to have that installed. The project is essentially a focused utility: it does one thing, connecting Go code on a Raspberry Pi to this particular sensor, without extra features or extensive documentation.
A Go library that lets a Raspberry Pi read temperature and barometric pressure from an MS5611 sensor, handling the low-level communication so you can get accurate atmospheric readings into your project.
Mainly Go. The stack also includes Go, WiringPi, Raspberry Pi.
Dormant — no commits in 2+ years (last push 2019-03-01).
Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.
Mainly developer.
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