Weather Monitor Project Introduction
A few years ago, I got the crazy idea that I wanted to work on a weather monitoring embedded microcontroller project. While the basic idea is not new, it is something that’s sufficiently complicated to become a great learning tool in various engineering disciplines.
Every project needs goals, so this is what I’m hoping to achieve:
- Wireless data collection
- Low-powered design
- Run system off of solar and/or wind power
- Monitor temperature
- Monitor humidity
- Monitor relative pressure
- Monitor wind speed
- Monitor wind direction
- Upload data to the interwebs
- Test designs on COTS boards
- Learn how to layout and produce boards
- Build solar and wind powered collection systems
- Build anemometer and weather vane
- Write all software and scripts
- Learn some new script and programming languages
- Have fun…
I’ve just finished acquiring most of the preliminary parts required to start this project, so I’m going to start documenting the project on this blog as I make progress building the weather monitor.
Tags: embedded, microcontroller, monitor, solar, weather, wind