Blog ≫ 2013 ≫ My Arduino smells

I bought one of these¹ a few weeks ago, and finally tried it out on Saturday. It works great!

connected up my new http://t.co/S2QVpJwTjQ² on @ourduino³ - man alive can it sniff out alcohol fumes!

— Paul [Clarke](/wiki/#clarke) (@pauly) November 9, 2013⁴

It can detect any sort of bad air and report on it, so including carbon monoxide, alcohol fumes etc. It can't differentiate between them but it knows something is wrong. It's going to be a handy thing to fit into any general monitoring, as if I've wired up something badly and caused a fire hazard this will let me know! Well, let the twitter know...

I have introduced an error into script that does the tweeting⁵, it bombs out after tweeting once now instead of keeping on reporting. There's nothing on the arduino serial monitor after the first post so I think I have caused some sort of memory error - if anyone knows what it might be please let me know...

1. Removed old coolcomponents.co.uk/air-quality-sensor.html link here.
2. Removed old t.co/S2QVpJwTjQ link here.
3. Removed old twitter.com/ourduino link here.
4. Removed old twitter.com/pauly/status/399297630427025408 link here.
5. Removed old github.com/pauly/rf-butler link here.

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