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If you’re a big Minecraft fan, the folks at [radikaldesign] have something that might be of interest to you. (Translation) Inspired by some of their Minecraft-loving friends, they have developed Minestation - a weather station for your Minecraft game. The concept is simple. Here in the real world we have the ability to look out the window and see what it is like outside, but many of us turn … [Read more...]
Can you believe that [hpux735] pulled this satellite weather image down from one of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's weather satellites using home equipment? It turns out that they've got three weather satellites in low earth orbit that pass overhead a few times a day. If you've got some homebrew hardware and post processing chops you can grab your own images from these … [Read more...]
[Sebastian] wrote in to share his web site, where he has a bunch of different electronics projects. After looking through them, we found a pair that we thought you might find interesting. The first project is a homebrew weather monitoring station that [Sebastian] put together. He designed a weather shield, incorporating humidity, pressure and light sensors, along with digital I/O ports for … [Read more...]
[Sean_Carney] build this clock that tells the weather instead of the time. The two hands display the current conditions and the temperature. Forty below zero seems amazingly cold if you're on the Fahrenheit scale but [Sean's] from Winnipeg so he's operating on the Celsius side of things. Two servos move the hands to match the data scraped off of the Internet. An Arduino does the scraping with … [Read more...]
Ever wanted to be able to launch a balloon into space, track its location via GPS, take some photographs of the curvature of the earth, and recover the balloon, all for the low low cost of $150? [Oliver Yeh] sent in his teams project, Icarus, which does just that. The group of MIT students found that they could use a weather balloon filled with helium to reach heights of around 20 miles above the … [Read more...]
Another Cornell final project, Weather Canvas aims to make watching the weather a little more pleasant. Data is captured via a thermometer, humidity sensor, anemometer, and a Hotwheels radar gun turned precipitation sensor. Once it's captured, it's transmitted to the LED matrix inside which displays pretty patterns to convey the weather conditions. They have set images, like icons, that mean … [Read more...]
This weather monitor can track pressure, temperature, and humidity and last several months on a pack of AA batteries. It has a PIC18f452 to control all the bits, as well as some fancy power management to get the most out of the batteries as possible. The screen displays the highest and lowest temperatures of the last 42 hours as well as having options to display all other sensor input, updated … [Read more...]
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