Hi, My name is Mark Bui-Ford, a descendent of multiple generations of beekeepers on both sides of my family. My favorite quite about my inner geek is, "Mark, there is nothing inner about your geek!" I don't write code or design hardware, but I can usually stumble through integrating existing components fairly well.
In my current role as Technical Marketing Manager, I do a lot of project management, bringing smarter people together to make things happen. Recently I have been researching options to track temperature and humidity in print shops (paper is very sensitive to both), so I find the sensor discussions on this forum very interesting.
My grandfather got me into beekeeping back in the early 80's. It was so sad to see my bees slowly die out as the Santa Clara Valley was sprayed with malathion from helicopters every night to combat a mediterranean fruit fly infestation.
I have a $79 wireless Monnit temperature and humidity sensor26 outside our hive at our place on the San Francisco peninsula right now. I just ordered another one to see how it would do in a corner of a frame in our hive.
If anyone knows of other technology to try, let me know!