[Today’s run: 4 miles]
My government surplus weather stations (3) arrived yesterday. I have tried two of them out and they seem to work fine. They came with some mounting hardware, a manual, and a couple different cables for connecting/configuring. It looks like I can also use my own cable for attachment.
Data comes out in ASCII strings on an RS-232 serial connection. It can be configured to send European or US units (F/C, in/mm, etc). There are sensors for wind speed and direction, temp, humidity, pressure, rain/hail. They include a heater circuit to keep the rain sensor from icing up. Pretty cool stuff.
Now I have to figure out what kind of user interface I want to use. I think I would like to create a simple LCD display which shows the temp, wind, etc. Then I would like to go wireless. Wireless would mean also coming up with a non-wired power source like solar and/or batteries? Lots of ideas. Wouldn’t it be cool to have an autonomous weather station out in the yard that talked html over wifi? Then I could bring up a web page on my computer and show the current readings, etc. I don’t know if I will get that far.