Soil Temperature Sensor Build

The soil temperature sensor is based on a design from John Bennett . I have made a couple of changes to John's design, firstly I do not have PCB making facilities, second his sensor has to sit at the end of a 1-Wire bus, or off the side as a spur. I...

House Temperature Statistics

To see when a temperature was rerecorded just place you mouse over the temperature and a popup will appear with the said information. {source} ( function($) { $(document).ready(function() { $('abbr[title]').qtip({ style: { classes: 'qtip-blue...

Rain Gauge Heater

and resistors. Most of the solutions I have reviewed seem to have a major drawback, a lack of accurate control of the temperature of the rain gauge. So after some thought, I have come up with this solution, maybe a tad over the top, but a bit of fun,...

House Monitoring (deprecated)

A few (many) years ago I setup a 1-wire system around my house to monitor it's temperatures. All the data collected has been logged in to a MySQL database. However only recently have I decided to publish it for all to view. All this has been...

1-Wire Tempreature Sensor Build

As you will see from the various stats on this site I have a number of temperature sensors around the house. These sensors are all 1Wire temperature sensors connected to either the house Linux machine, a ha7net box or a raspberry pi. To make it easy to...

Sven Nixie Tube Clock

Even in the factory default. There are a myriad of options for them, I have yet to try them all out. There is a built in temperature sensor, which gives the current temperature of where the clock is placed, this is displayed every few seconds, another...

Weather Station Refurb 2010

This should allow the flow of air more easily around the sensor, stopping any dampness causing any issues. Both the solar/temperature and the humidity sensor have now had this modification. The fan that is fitted to the housing, had also stopped...

Weather Station Refurb 2013

have a lightning earthing rod in the ground, which it's connected to. The bottom picture is the splitter box for the soil temperature sensor.