Comments on: Weather monitoring

By: cotarelo

cotarelo — Sun, 10 May 2009 12:10:22 +0000

I am going to write my master thesis in weather monitoring, I am planning to create a website where you can nicely see the information of wireless sensor nodes. If someone have ideas contact me.

By: SpiralBrain

SpiralBrain — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:46:56 +0000

yes as most of the people say this is Michel Bavin’s design and he deserves the credit for this . http://techdesign.be

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:37:23 +0000

Because if it twittered then there would be no need to store the data for many hours.
Seems it’s meant to be left somewhere where there’s no power and then later to retrieve the data.

By: Bah

Bah — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:16:21 +0000

And its not hooked up to some kind of twittering device WHY? -_-

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:26:20 +0000

In this case I’m with rviso and would just buy it at a store and if I wanted to hack I’d add a computer interface, simply because it’s much cheaper and widely available and making it yourself doesn’t add anything as far as I can tell.

By: Koskun

Koskun — Wed, 06 May 2009 05:35:20 +0000

The creator of it is already working on making it solar powered.

By: Sparr

Sparr — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:19:11 +0000

This is EXACTLY the kind of device that zigbee is designed for. Small, low power, sensor data to relay back to -somewhere-.

By: ellisgl

ellisgl — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:15:53 +0000

Does it twitter thou?

By: dildo baggins

dildo baggins — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:44:27 +0000

Well it’s 42 hours in multiple places in the original article, so I guess that’s accurate. Strange that they didn’t either extend it to two full days or just cut it back to a single day.

By: dildo baggins

dildo baggins — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:42:41 +0000

High and low temps of the last “42 hours”? That must be a transposition of 24 hours, yes?

By: el_remora

el_remora — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:20:50 +0000

The original site of this proyect is http://www.techdesign.be/projects/012/012.htm

By: RoboGuy

RoboGuy — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:18:20 +0000

Looks nice. Those screens are dang useful – I have one that I’m using for UI with my AT90USBKEY.

By: clint

clint — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:33:20 +0000

Great example of Nokia 3310 LCD code & useage. Not the exact sensors I would’ve chosen for the project, but it still looks great!

I like the idea of solar for the transmitter. Anyone know of any good micro-solar-charger circuits?

@rviso: You can buy this at Radio Shack for $9? Please back that up with a link (or get back under the bridge with the rest of the trolls!)

By: matt

matt — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:01:21 +0000

it would be awesome to weatherproof it and have it transmit all the data to a usb or serial port, then make a desktop app to have it display the data. i know there are already programs that do this by getting the information online but this way you can be sure it’s in realtime and all.

@rviso: i think you’re on the wrong site for that kind of talk…

By: rviso

rviso — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:43:33 +0000

Ummm.. can’t you just but this at radio shack for like $9?