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Dev tools · September 10, 2020

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CCS811 indoor air quality sensor driver in Rust

Platform-agnostic driver for the AMS/ScioSense CCS811 indoor air quality sensor (gas and volatile organic compounds, VOC) written in Rust.

CCS811 indoor air quality sensor driver in Rust launched on September 10, 2020 with 6 votes, #1,359 of 3,898 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

What it does

We spend an enormous amount of time indoors. The indoor air quality is often overlooked but it is actually an important factor in our health, comfort and even productivity. There are lots of things that contribute to the degradation of the indoor air quality over time. Some of them are trivial to guess like breathing, chimneys, second-hand tobacco smoke, mold, etc. There are others that you may not have heard of like volatile organic compounds (VOC) . Remember that smell new things have? well sorry but that can give you cancer . You can build your own indoor air quality monitor with an AMS/ScioSense CCS811 sensor and some Rust using the driver I wrote. The CCS811 is an ultra-low power…from blog.eldruin.com

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