We've let our Pi discover its immediate surroundings, and let it show data through various means. We've even given them the ability to move! But there's a cosmos of data to be collected, and sometimes the data you want can't be collected locally. That's where the internet, and initiatives to make more and more data freely available, come into play. In this chapter, we'll look into connecting your Pi to the internet and obtaining weather information in order to create a weather dashboard.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

• Why connect your NodeBots to the internet?
• Getting weather data on our Pi with OpenWeatherMap
• Building a weather dashboard with an LCD
• Scraping websites for data with your Pi