Collaborate Disseminate
When [Fab] needed an anemometer for his latest project, he was stymied by the limited range and relatively high prices of commercial options. Undeterred, his solution was an impressive DIY …read more Continue reading DIY Anemometer For Projects Big and Small
For those of us old enough to remember the VCR (and the difficulty of programming one), the ubiquitous vacuum fluorescent display, or VFD, is burned into our memories, mostly because …read more Continue reading Using Arduinos To Drive Undocumented Displays
Having flexed its muscles in predicting kidney injury, toppling Go champions and solving 50-year-old science problems, artificial intelligence company DeepMind is now dipping its toes in weather forecasting. The company’s latest tool is designed to pre… Continue reading DeepMind AI predicts incoming rainfall with high accuracy
Weather is one of those things that seems to be endlessly interesting to hackers. We may decry the notion that weather can be accurately predicted two days out, much less …read more Continue reading Nothing Should Cloud the Build of This Wieldy Weather Widget
Most of us don’t spend that much time thinking about lightning. Every now and then we hear some miraculous news story about the man who just survived his fourth lightning …read more Continue reading Of Lasers and Lightning: Thwarting Thor with Technology
With little more than four economical stepper motors, a Raspberry Pi Zero, and a 3D printer, [Thomas Barlow] made himself an awfully slick Smart Flip Clock that can display not …read more Continue reading This DIY Split-Flap Display Does Both Time and Weather
A dingy and cold early February in a small British town during a pandemic lockdown is not the nicest time and place to take your exercise, but for me it …read more Continue reading Wet Country Wireless; How The British Weather Killed A Billion Pound Tech Company
For most of us, getting weather information is as trivial as unlocking a smartphone or turning on a computer and pointing an app or browser at one’s weather site of choice. This is all well and good, but it lacks …read more
Continue reading Supersized Weather Station Uses Antique Analog Meters
Scientists have found evidence of a “space hurricane” for the first time. The storm, made up of swirling clouds of plasma, raged in Earth’s upper atmosphere for hours, dumping huge amounts of electrons like rain in a system that resembles a regular hur… Continue reading Plasma “space hurricane” detected over Earth for first time
(1) Weather alert indicator, (2) Current temperature and “feels like” temperature, (3) Relative humidity and wind, (4) 24-hour temperature graph, (5) 24-hour precipitation probability graph
Not that long ago, making a low-power and wireless weather display complete with an e-ink …read more