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Here you can find Ideas and inspirations for all DIY projects revolving around the care of Newts and Salamanders.

Keeping an eye on temperature is extremely important when keeping salamanders, as they are particularly susceptible to high temperatures, and being able to quickly check on temperature remotely is incredibly easy now with the IoT. In this tutorial we will learn how to create a sensor that sends temperature, humidity and barometric pressure informations to be logged in a Google Sheet file that be accessed anywhere. 

In this tutorial, we will explore a cheaper alternative to the one described in  How to control the temperature of your terrarium room remotely which will allow us to remotely monitor the temperature of an Aquarium/terrarium, log the Data in Google Sheet and all for around £5