As this is my first Hackaday.io project, it is also my first attempt at soldering. While I have already been using Raspberry Pi computers and the Python programming language for self-quantification, my experience with assembling electronics is relatively limited. I have built numerous desktop PCs, but only a few devices weighing less than a pound or two.

Today I purchased the equipment needed to solder. Once the hardware arrives, I will begin this journey by connecting header pins to the Adafruit MCP9808 temperature sensor. From there, I will be using jumper cables to connect said sensor to a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 WH. At which point I will write a program to have this apparatus collect temperature data every few seconds, adding those measurements to a growing CSV file. Which will later be visualized using the D3 JavaScript library.

I will update this project again in the near future when there is more to share.