{"id":1094,"date":"2013-11-15T13:05:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T18:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2026-03-31T18:03:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:03:26","slug":"store-share-and-visualize-sensor-data-using-the-brickpi-raspberry-pi-and-thingspeak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2013\/11\/15\/store-share-and-visualize-sensor-data-using-the-brickpi-raspberry-pi-and-thingspeak\/","title":{"rendered":"Store, Share, and Visualize Sensor Data using the BrickPi, Raspberry Pi, and ThingSpeak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Dexter Industries\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dexterindustries.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dexter Industries<\/a>\u00a0launched a very successful <a title=\"BrickPi, LEGO Bricks with a Raspberry Pi Brain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/john-cole\/brickpi-lego-bricks-with-a-raspberry-pi-brain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kickstarter campaign<\/a>\u00a0this past summer to build and release the BrickPi.\u00a0The BrickPi turns the Raspberry Pi computer into a robotics and sensing platform for LEGO<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> MINDSTORMS<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>. Since the wrap up of the campaign, users have jumped on board making cool projects using the\u00a0BrickPi including a step-by-step <a title=\"ThingSpeak Temperature with Raspberry Pi\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dexterindustries.com\/BrickPi\/projects\/thingspeak-temperature-log\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tutorial<\/a>\u00a0using <a title=\"ThingSpeak - Time-series sensor data collection for the Internet of Things\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thingspeak.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ThingSpeak<\/a> to store, share, and visualize sensor data.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dexterindustries.com\/BrickPi\/projects\/thingspeak-temperature-log\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1095\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/15\/files\/2013\/11\/BrickPi_Weather_Station.jpg\" alt=\"BrickPi Weather Station using ThingSpeak and the Raspberry Pi\" width=\"606\" height=\"353\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out the tutorial, &#8220;<a title=\"ThingSpeak Temperature with Raspberry Pi\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dexterindustries.com\/BrickPi\/projects\/thingspeak-temperature-log\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ThingSpeak Temperature with Raspberry Pi<\/a>&#8220;, to learn how to send sensor data using the BrickPi, a Raspberry Pi computer, and a temperature sensor for the LEGO<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> MINDSTORMS<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> NXT. The project uses ThingSpeak to store, share, and visualize sensor data collected by BrickPi-enabled projects. The Python code for the Raspberry Pi is available on GitHub and the\u00a0entire project is open source!<\/p>\n<p>[via \u00a0<a title=\"ThingSpeak Temperature with Raspberry Pi\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dexterindustries.com\/BrickPi\/projects\/thingspeak-temperature-log\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dexter Industries<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"overview-image\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/15\/files\/2013\/11\/BrickPi_Weather_Station.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Dexter Industries\u00a0launched a very successful Kickstarter campaign\u00a0this past summer to build and release the BrickPi.\u00a0The BrickPi turns the Raspberry Pi computer into a robotics and sensing platform&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2013\/11\/15\/store-share-and-visualize-sensor-data-using-the-brickpi-raspberry-pi-and-thingspeak\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[256,3],"tags":[175,49,163,12,161,262,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3568,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions\/3568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}