Weather Station Refurb 2010

I noticed that the wind speed sensor was still not reporting any wind, however now it was very windy! I had noticed that the cable that goes to the wind instrument was looking very unwell. It was cracked! I brought this cable as a UV protected cable,...

Soil Temperature Sensor Build

to fit snugly in. The holes are cut so that the two sensors are 2 inches apart, as per John's instructions/guidance. The cable was then attached and epoxyed to the top of the sensor board. This should help in stopping the wires from fracturing at the...

Rain Gauge Heater

of people have come up with a number of solutions, including putting a 12v bulb in the rain gauge to heat it, resistive cable that heats, and resistors. Most of the solutions I have reviewed seem to have a major drawback, a lack of accurate control of...

Raspberry PI - I2C Compass

vero board, this is an I2C bus driver (P82B715PN), and it works a treat, so far I have tested it over a 20 meter cat5 patch cable, and it works great. I did however have too pop a small capacitor to help with the power requirements over this length of...

Weather Station Refurb 2013

This shows the splitter board and then it mounted in the housing with the RJ45 waterproofs connected. You will see the top cable has a label on it, this is the one to the sensor, so when I have to take it apart I will not have to trace the cables around...

Raspberry PI GPS Time Source

already used up the on board UART on the Stratum 1 server. Another look though my supplies, I found a spare USB to serial cable, problem solved. Only one other opportunity! It did not work..... after checking that I had cabled it correctly, and head...

1-Wire Tempreature Sensor Build

an Ethernet device, but is used as a dedicated 1Wire network, well in fact a number of them, so interconnection is via Cat5e cables. The following pictures show the build.. I had already created a few of these modules before, but this is the first time...