DIY Weather on your Raspberry Pi! Weather! Weather!

A project in Liberty Lake, WA by SwitchDoc Labs
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Finally! A Flexible Weather Board designed for the Raspberry Pi. Using the Weather Board is easy! No soldering!
Backers: 172
Average Pledge Per Backer: $106

Funded: $18,315 of $1,500
Dates: Jul 5th -> Jul 25th (20 days)
Project By: SwitchDoc Labs
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Latest News

Thank you Backers! We have ordered more Weather Boards

July 25th - via: kickstarter.com
We want to make sure that we can ship all rewards on time.   We have a number of pre-orders also so we have ordered another production run of Weather Boards. Aside from our one order of WeatherRacks sitting on a customs dock somewhere everything is... (Read More)

Solar Powered Weather Board for the Raspberry Pi

July 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Folks, We have now completed the prototype for the Solar Powered Weather Board using a Raspberry Pi Zero.   The picture below shows the completed unit.  Lots of software and system design yet to finish!   But it works.   You can see the Raspberry... (Read More)

Production Weather Boards Received! Two days to go!

July 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
All of our Production Weather Boards for the Raspberry Pi have now arrived. We are now confident that we can ship all our July Kickstarter rewards on time!Thank you Cindy! We have been notified of the imminent shipment (however, the last time we... (Read More)

Lightning Storm Right Now At SwitchDoc Labs!

July 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
Now this is a real time update!  Right above us!    And our Very Cool Weather Board / Lightning Detector is picking it up! --------------- Lightning Detection --------------- irqSource: 8 INT_L Interrupt: Lightning Detected. Stroke Distance:1 km... (Read More)

Arduino Software Released for the Weather Board

July 21st - via: kickstarter.com
When we designed the Weather Board for the Raspberry Pi, we gave some thought to making it compatible with the entire family of Arduino products, both 3.3V (like the Due) and 5V (like the Arduino Nano and Mega2560). We are pleased to announce that we... (Read More)

Weather Board Raspberry Pi Software Released!

July 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Boy, Engineering is rocking!  First the specification is released and now the software! We are pleased to announce the availability of the pure Python Raspberry Pi software for the Weather Board.  You can find it here:... (Read More)

Weather Board for the Raspberry Pi Specification Published

July 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Good news!   We have now released the Weather Board for the Raspberry Pi Specification. It contains: Example Applications, Parts Lists and Wiring Lists Testing Procedures Pictures! All the gritty technical detail you could want You can find it here:... (Read More)

Stretch goal #1 made!

July 15th - via: kickstarter.com
Woohoo!  We made $10,000!!   We will include a free Pi2Grover Raspberry Pi to Grove interface board for each pledge over $100. Much easier to use with Grove plugs! Thrilled! President Laurie Pi2Grover    (Read More)

Weather Board Released to Production

July 11th - via: kickstarter.com
Whoop!  Whoop!     John finished testing today (the final test was a 5V test with the Pi2Grover board and the Raspberry Pi 3) and we have released the Weather Board for the Raspberry Pi to production. We are on track to shipping all rewards on... (Read More)

Full Weather Board Test with Lightning and Pi2Grover (5V Test)

July 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Everything looks good!   This is the full build with the Lightning Board and with the Pi2Grover board (converts Raspberry Pi to 5V Grove Plugs - very cool and handy). Here is a short movie showing the weather data read every 10 seconds. Best,John... (Read More)

Full Lightning Test - It works!

July 9th - via: kickstarter.com
We just finished our first end to end test of the Lightning board (done with our partners embedded adventures) and the Weather Board for the Raspberry Pi. Armed with our trusty (though very expensive) lighting simulator from AMS, it works now end to... (Read More)

Weather Board Raspberry Pi Weather Station Picture

July 9th - via: kickstarter.com
John (Our CTO) thought you guys would like to see this.   We have hooked up the Weather Board to a WeatherRack wind/rain sensor set and are running the board in 3.3V mode for this test.   Tomorrow we will publish some pictures of the board running... (Read More)

Now at 300% - More Boards ordered!

July 8th - via: kickstarter.com
We ordered another batch of Weather Boards so we could make sure we can ship everybody on time.   We should be covered now for the kickstarter and still have enough stock to last us for a bit. Our CTO, Dr. John Shovic, is off shooting a course video... (Read More)

Whoa! Thank you Backers!

July 6th - via: kickstarter.com
We made our goal in less than one day.  Hmmm.   Maybe we underestimated the demand out there for this Kickstarter.   Cindy, order some more boards! Laurie P.S.   Pizza and Beer for the team.   This time at the Fieldhouse.    (Read More)

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