Have you ever tried to run your Arduino project on batteries but been surprised to get only a few hours of battery life? In this guide I'll show you how I built a simple WiFi sensor datalogger and optimized it to run for days on batteries. You can learn some useful power saving tips to apply to your own Arduino project!

Before you get started it will help to familiarize yourself with these topics:

Download and unzip the software that will be used in this project from the following link:

This guide was first published on Feb 13, 2014. It was last updated on Feb 13, 2014.

This page (Overview) was last updated on Jan 30, 2014.

Text editor powered by tinymce.