This is an only-twitter project I made to follow the heat wave in Barcelona. Temperature is measured with a thermotwitter, thermometer which tweets the measures every 10 minutes. You can follow the project in @bcn_heat_wave and view the results in your flowing data.
Barcelona and the whole Spain is passing through ”the typical” summer heat wave. Every summer a heat wave threaten us with new fires and new deaths caused by the heat.
I hate the heat, more yet the heat from Barcelona. I am from a dry zone from Spain so humidity makes you sweat even if you are under the shadow doing absolutely nothing. I really hate that! So here temperatures above 30 degrees are really really hot and the feeling is even worse.
So this year I’ve decided to make something to fight against it. I thought to buy an a.c. but money, space and noise made me to change my mind, so I’ve made an experiment: Measuring the real heat wave.
I recently bought an Arduino board and I was excited to make some code with openframeworks, so why not to mix all the things? So that is how I created the project called BCN Heat Wave.
It is based on a ThermoTwitter, just a thermometer made with an arduino board and a thermistor connected to a piece of software that I made in openframeworks to measure the room temperature and tweet it every 10 minutes.
It also connects to user @yfd to store all the data and makes some graphs.
You can follow all the data measurement in the user @bcn_heat_wave and you can see the progress in http://your.flowingdata.com/bcn_heat_wave/page/92/
So I try to make a only-twitter project. I mean, all the progress is made through twitter, all information is showed in twitter, and the projects itself doesn’t have a web page.
I also have to say the measures are not taken in a scientific way. The thermotwitter is in my living room (over my ps3 games), quite close to the tv and more electronic gadgets, so the temperature is accurate but the environment is not very “clean”. But this is where I live almost all the day so it gives a pretty close idea about the heat I have to suffer, so science fanatics keep away!
So I invite you to follow @bcn_heat_wave in twitter, I will try to not spam a lot, the measures are taken every 10 minutes but maybe I will make the period longer, and I will tweet some real information about the heat wave in Spain, the deaths of the poor old men and the hectares burnt by the summer fire in Spain. And don’t forget to retweet!!!
If you think there is something i am missing or just want to add some information related to the project just reply with your twitter account.
With all the data collected I will make a visualization about how was the heat wave of this year!
2 Comments
1 Anti wrote:
Moolaaaaaaaassss
2 Chris Murphy wrote:
Note you should remove the #arduino tag from your temperature updates, it’s making a big mess for people trying to follow ardunio discussions.
Neat project though, and as a fellow heat-hater hope you get some relief soon!