Basic Stamp weather station

Bing~

Hi all,

I'm in the middle of researching how to build a weather station from scratch and run it using the Basic Stamp bs2 homework board.· I've found several sites that all seem to poing to 1 of 2 places...AAG.com and Matt Parnell's site.· I want to try to build this from scratch as much as possible, so I'd rather not buy the kit from AAG.· I found a really bad black and white picture of Matt Parnell's weather station, and it looks like his was built from scratch.· The link to the site is broken or the site does not exist anymore (http://www.oeonline.com/~tparnell/index.html).· So, I'm curious if anyone has the schematics for what he built or has someone else built a weather station from scratch who might be able to share schematics and such.· Thanks a bunch!

SRLM

If you're going to build it from scratch, you might as well design from scratch too. Make a list of what you want to measure. It might resemble:

Temperature
Humidity
Pressure
Wind Speed
Wind Dirrection
Light Levels
inches/cm of Rain


Then just find a sensor for each. Figure out how you want to get the data: store it on a datalogger and periodically retrieve it, or transmit it (via wire or wireless) to some other place, and display/store it. It's not really all that difficult to build a weather station. Also, you probably want to do your testing on the homework board, then move to a more permanent design later.

MSDTech

There are several examples of basic weather monitoring in the Completed Projects forum:

http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=734148

http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=723497

You can also find info on a group that builds weather stations for schools at:

http://www.lightningnetwork.org/weather/

How you build it will depend on what you want to measure, how accurate the data needs to be,·and where you want the data reported.

Steph Lindsay

Wow, you have some great leads here.

You can also get some leads from our Applied Sensors Text by Dr. Tracy Allen, and the author's own website www.emesystems.com.

-Stephanie

Bing~

Thanks for the help. I'm going to have to see what I can get my instructor to pay for now, lol