An Arduino Uno provides the processing power and drives the serial monitor. A joystick and a Hitachi H48C accelerometer are mounted on a breadboard and wired to the Uno.

This simple WiFi serial port monitor would have saved us a lot of trouble. We can’t count how many times where being hooked into an Arduino with USB just to get the serial out has nearly been… ...

He uses a cheap, $12 sensor with an Arduino and a Radiation shield and monitors the data on his computer.

Full instructions on how to build your very own DIY Arduino air pollution monitor have been kindly published to the Thingyverse website and can be accessed via the link below.