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Building a weather station isn’t too tall of an order for anyone getting into an electronics project. There are plenty of plans online, and you can even put your station on Weather Underground if it meets certain standards. These usually have access to a reliable source of power, though, and …read more
Continue reading Low Power Weather Station Blows the Competition Away
If the great Samuel Clemens were alive today, he might modify the famous meteorological quip often attributed to him to read, “Everyone complains about weather forecasts, but I can’t for the life of me see why!” In his day, weather forecasting was as much guesswork as anything else, reading the …read more
Continue reading How 5G is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk
When it comes to gathering environmental data in real-world settings, urban environments have to be the most challenging. Every city has nooks and crannies that create their own microenvironments, and placing enough sensors to get a decent picture of what’s going on in all of them is a tough job. …read more
Continue reading Sensor-Laden Pigeons Gather Data For Urban Weather Modeling
On January 20, a total lunar eclipse coincides with a supermoon. Here’s how to catch it if you have cloudy skies. Continue reading How to Watch the ‘Super Blood Wolf Moon’ Even If the Weather’s Crappy
Salaried meteorologists at the National Weather Service aren’t getting paid, and this could have long-term implications for your weather forecasts. Continue reading The Shutdown Is Weakening Our Understaffed Weather Service
While IBM is getting sued by the city of Los Angeles, accusing it of covertly mining user data in the Weather Channel app in the US, it’s testing the waters for another hyperlocal weather feature that — coincidentally — relies on data that it picks up from sensors on app users’ smartphones, among other devices, […] Continue reading Amid a legal fight in LA, IBM’s Weather Company launches hyperlocal weather forecasts globally
The old-fashioned alarm clock was a staple of cartoons in years past, with loud clanging bells and slap-to-shutoff functionality. Despite being an excellent dramatic device, these classic timepieces began to lose favor to the digital clock radio, and, in more recent times, the smartphone alarm. However, [LenkaDesign] has come up with this excellent build that combines the best of the old and the new.
The build starts with an old alarm clock. The clockwork internals are removed, but the bells remain, powered instead by a brushed DC motor. An Arduino Nano is the brains of the operation, interfacing with the …read more
Continue reading Weather Forecasting Clock Makes An Almighty Racket
Two power plants in Norfolk, Nebraska caused several inches of snow to fall in parts of the state on Monday. Continue reading Power Plants Are Making It Snow in Nebraska
Building your own weather station is a fun project in itself, but building it to be self-sufficient and off-grid adds another set of challenges to the mix. You’ll need a battery and a solar panel to power the station, which means adding at least a regulator and charge controller to your build. If the panel and battery are small, you’ll also need to make some power-saving tweaks to the code as well. (Google Translate from Italian) The tricks that [Danilo Larizza] uses in his build are useful for more than just weather stations though, they’ll be perfect for anyone trying …read more
Continue reading Weather Station Is A Tutorial in Low Power Design
Most of the DIY smartwatch projects we feature here on Hackaday aren’t exactly what most people would consider practical daily-use devices. Clunky designs, short battery life, limited functions: they’re more a wearable display of geek cred than they are functional timepieces. Oddly enough, the same could be said of many of the “real” smartwatches on the market, so perhaps the DIY versions are closer to the state-of-the-art than we thought.
But this ESP8266 smartwatch created by [Shyam Ravi] is getting dangerously close to something you could unironically leave the house with. It’s still missing an enclosure that prevents you from …read more