This Instructable describes an station to measure Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ). This is a measure of comfort that is impacted by several factors such as indoor weather including temperature, humidity (pressure would have been possible as well) noise level indoor air quality. The initial goal of this project was to monitor IEQ in my baby's room. However, such an IEQ station can be used for various applications, such as checking if all your rooms are well-ventilated and with proper temperature regulation. And I'll show a variation that you can take outdoor to make a weather station ! Such a project is composed of several steps, a chain along which the information is carrier over different platforms, from sensors to user interface. Although there are plenty of tutorials on internet, I found that they tended to focus on one step or the other. Therefore with this Instructable, my goal is to show how these different bricks fit together from A to Z. I hope it'll inspire and help you build your own project.

As always - if you like this Instructable, Votes, Favs, and Comments are much appreciated ! Step 1: Environmental datalogging information chain« PreviousNext »View All Steps DownloadThe Car Air Purifier will keep your car from smelling like you live in it When you’re driving to and from work on a regular basis with a long commute, it starts to get a bit…stuffy. If you aren’t good about taking cups and trash out of your car, chances are you have quite the buildup of french fries and crumbs under your seat. While it’s easier to keep track of how often we clean our homes, the same is not so for our cars. You don’t vacuum it every week and wash the seats to have them smelling fresh. It’s because of this that we need some methods to prevent our car from hoarding all the smells we bring into it. The FriEQ Car Air Purifier is going to freshen up what you breathe in while driving. It plugs into your 12v cigarette outlet, and rather than adding a scented perfume to your car, it will annihilate the source of the odors.

It releases negative ions which will get rid of smoke or stale smells, take out mold, bacteria, and viruses. It’s not very big, and has a blue LED to let you know when it’s on, as well as giving you a bit of extra light in your car. It will take up the outlet that would also charge your phone, but for cleaner air it’ll be worth it to switch out if you’re fully charged and needlessly sucking up energy. aprilaire high efficiency air cleaner model 2400This is a $22.99 purchase that will likely yield results pretty quickly if your car is stinky. aeramax dx5 air purifierOf course, that’s if things aren’t to the point where you have to resort to pine tree-shaped fresheners in combination with this.homedics - ar29 - professional hepa air cleaner review

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