Arduino Data Logger Investigation
An Arduino can listen for hours longer than you can. What would you ask it to listen for?
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Venture In
Wero
Observe
Kite
Infer
Whakaaro
Create
Auaha
Evaluate
Tohu
Evidence you will build
- Working data logger (physical)
- Annotated and commented code
- Time-series dataset
- Data visualisation with interpretation
Why this matters
Open-source loggers let communities build affordable monitoring — code quality and file handling determine whether data survives the field.
What you will investigate and collect
You will build a small Arduino-based logger to capture a single variable on a tight schedule and use the data to answer a real question. How a tight, automated sampling schedule reveals a pattern your manual records would miss. Logger output (CSV or serial), plus manual reference checks.
- Date and time
- Variable
- Reading
- Manual reference
What you might make or share
- Arduino data logger scaffoldArduino
Prototype timed captures tied to reliability evidence
If jitter or sampling gaps blurred your inference, scripted intervals target that gap.
What you will investigate
You will build a small Arduino-based logger to capture a single variable on a tight schedule and use the data to answer a real question.
What you will collect
Date and time, Variable
What you might make or share
An enclosed Arduino logger, a graph story