[Today’s run: 4 miles]<\/p>\n
My government surplus weather stations (3) arrived yesterday.\u00a0 I have tried two of them out and they seem to work fine.\u00a0 They came with some mounting hardware, a manual, and a couple different cables for connecting\/configuring.\u00a0 It looks like I can also use my own cable for attachment.<\/p>\n
Data comes out in ASCII strings on an RS-232 serial connection.\u00a0 It can be configured to send European or US units (F\/C, in\/mm, etc).\u00a0 There are sensors for wind speed and direction, temp, humidity, pressure, rain\/hail.\u00a0 They include a heater circuit to keep the rain sensor from icing up.\u00a0 Pretty cool stuff.<\/p>\n
Now I have to figure out what kind of user interface I want to use.\u00a0 I think I would like to create a simple LCD display which shows the temp, wind, etc.\u00a0 Then I would like to go wireless.\u00a0 Wireless would mean also coming up with a non-wired power source like solar and\/or batteries?\u00a0 Lots of ideas.\u00a0 Wouldn’t it be cool to have an autonomous weather station out in the yard that talked html over wifi?\u00a0 Then I could bring up a web page on my computer and show the current readings, etc.\u00a0 I don’t know if I will get that far.<\/p>\n