ICYMI – Adafruit IoT Monthly: Battery-Powered Sun Tracking, Mapping Data Centers, and more!

Per Adafruit's August Internet of Things roundup, the maker community is tackling practical problems. One gardener built a battery-powered light monitor to determine which plants thrive in different parts of their yard. In the Midwest, someone replaced an abandoned bowling alley's broken scoring system—originally priced at a hundred twenty thousand dollars—with sixteen hundred dollars' worth of ESP32 microcontrollers. Other highlighted projects include a solar-powered wireless sensor network for a garden shed, a Raspberry Pi trained with a neural network to read an inaccessible gas meter, and an e-paper display that updates Lake Lanier's water levels every fifteen minutes using Army Corps of Engineers data. The roundup also features a look back at IBM's Home Director automation kit from nineteen ninety-six, and notes that PoweredByWho has mapped over twenty-three hundred data centers across America, correlating them with public ownership records.

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