Hello, everyone!
I've been super excited about this project since I first found this forum a few months ago. It took me a while, but I finally got the electronics parts together and a few sensors to start the electronics side of the build.
I'm starting with a simple and cheap(ish!) build, intending to learn as I go, and improve for a second, more sophisticated build.
First build is planned to be:
1x TX, PCB v3.12 with
Fine Offset anemometer and wind vane (new as "spare parts" from Maplin here in the UK) to give a rough measurement of wind
Davis rain gauge, metric base-mounted version (I thought the FO gauge was just too approximate!)
(possibly fake from Far East?) SHT31 temperature humidity sensor; radiation screen still to be worked out (thinking of Davis 7714, but $$)
1x RX+, PCB v1.3C
SHT31 temperature humidity sensor
2.8" TFT
no onboard TX/relay transmission (I don't intend to build a WD unit)
In this thread, I'll write up some observations and ask questions
A little background on me: it's a long time since I "played with electronics". At about age 10, I started with making a crystal radio, stringing the antenna wire to a tree from my bedroom window, and driving a copper pipe into the ground for an earth. Then I made some circuits connected to the parallel port on my Commodore 64: a small wheeled robot, and circuits to control a train set. I have fond memories of Babani books, whcih I hope I've still got in a box somewhere. Fun times! I studied a bit more at school, a Physics degree, then 20 years of an office job and no electronics experiments, and here I am at the Weatherduino project.
I've kitted myself out with a fancy (to me) Ersa i-con nano soldering station and a few tips - a joy to use. I'm a bit out of date and rusty with this sort of thing, but really enjoying it.
I've been super excited about this project since I first found this forum a few months ago. It took me a while, but I finally got the electronics parts together and a few sensors to start the electronics side of the build.
I'm starting with a simple and cheap(ish!) build, intending to learn as I go, and improve for a second, more sophisticated build.
First build is planned to be:
1x TX, PCB v3.12 with
Fine Offset anemometer and wind vane (new as "spare parts" from Maplin here in the UK) to give a rough measurement of wind
Davis rain gauge, metric base-mounted version (I thought the FO gauge was just too approximate!)
(possibly fake from Far East?) SHT31 temperature humidity sensor; radiation screen still to be worked out (thinking of Davis 7714, but $$)
1x RX+, PCB v1.3C
SHT31 temperature humidity sensor
2.8" TFT
no onboard TX/relay transmission (I don't intend to build a WD unit)
In this thread, I'll write up some observations and ask questions
A little background on me: it's a long time since I "played with electronics". At about age 10, I started with making a crystal radio, stringing the antenna wire to a tree from my bedroom window, and driving a copper pipe into the ground for an earth. Then I made some circuits connected to the parallel port on my Commodore 64: a small wheeled robot, and circuits to control a train set. I have fond memories of Babani books, whcih I hope I've still got in a box somewhere. Fun times! I studied a bit more at school, a Physics degree, then 20 years of an office job and no electronics experiments, and here I am at the Weatherduino project.
I've kitted myself out with a fancy (to me) Ersa i-con nano soldering station and a few tips - a joy to use. I'm a bit out of date and rusty with this sort of thing, but really enjoying it.