The Thunder Board - IOT Lightning Detection for Makers!
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Detect Lighting on your Raspberry Pi or Arduino System! The Thunder Board - DIY IOT lighting detector and lightning simulator.
Backers: 103
Average Pledge Per Backer: $67
Funded: $6,850 of $5,000
Dates: Nov 16th -> Dec 6th (20 days)
Project By: SwitchDoc Labs
Backers: 103
Average Pledge Per Backer: $67
Funded: $6,850 of $5,000
Dates: Nov 16th -> Dec 6th (20 days)
Project By: SwitchDoc Labs
$6,850
current pledge level
Last Updated: December 6 @ 11:03 -0500 GMT
137%
of goal
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Latest News
Raspberry Pi Drivers and IOT Kit software released 
December 4th - via: kickstarter.com
As promised, here is the Raspberry Pi Lightning Detector IOT kit software released and the Raspberry Pi AS3935 Thunder Board driver software. https://github.com/switchdoclabs/SDL_Pi_ThunderBoard_IOT... (Read More)
Thunder Board Lightning Simulator Software Released
December 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
Lots of things done in the past few days. The Lightning Simulator is now finished! We have just posted the software for the Thunder Board Lightning Simulator. https://github.com/switchdoclabs/SDL_Arduino_ThunderBoardSimulator It comes with a fully... (Read More)
Raspberry Pi IOT and the Thunder Board - Initial Results
December 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
Here is a short video of the Raspberry Pi IOT Thunder Board Lightning Detection Kit working. About 85% done now and we are detecting Lightning! Best regards,John C. Shovic, PhDCTOSwitchDoc Labs You'll need an HTML5 capable browser to see this... (Read More)
Arduino Thunder Board IOT Project 3D Print Files Released
December 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
We have now posted the 3D Print files for the Arduino Thunder Board IOT Project Kit. You can modify these by using OpenSCAD (www.openscad.org) to make your custom enclosure. https://github.com/switchdoclabs/SDL_STL_Arduino_ThunderBoard_IOT (Read More)
Arduino Thunder Board Software Posted
December 1st - via: kickstarter.com
We have now posted the first version of Arduino Thunder Board IOT software and also the Thunder Board AS3935 drivers. https://github.com/switchdoclabs/SDL_Arduino_ThunderBoard_IOT https://github.com/switchdoclabs/SDL_Arduino_ThunderBoard_AS3935... (Read More)
First Run Manufacturing Boards In House
December 1st - via: kickstarter.com
We have our first set of 200 manufacturing boards in house and they test to our specification. That's great news! That means that we can ship this kickstarter on time. Whew! We are still working on the software and will be posting the following... (Read More)
Thunder Board Grove Lightning Detector Specification Released
November 30th - via: kickstarter.com
Folks, We have now released the first version of the specification for the Thunder Board Grove Lightning Detector. Up next is the software driver releases and then the software for the Raspberry Pi IOT device and the Arduino IOT device. Exciting!... (Read More)
Arduino Thunder Board IOT Project - ESP8266 WiFi - How it works!
November 28th - via: kickstarter.com
We just posted an article on how the ESP8266 WiFi (Grove of course) works in the Arduino IOT project. It's all up and working now. We are getting ready to start doing the software releases and also the ThunderBoard Specification is being... (Read More)
The Thunder Board is up and running on the Raspberry Pi IOT!
November 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
Folks, Quite a bit of progress today! The Thunder Board is running on the Raspberry Pi IOT device. It is reading the board and sending the information up to the Freeboard Internet Dashboard as shown below. Next up, get the I2C LCD to work.... (Read More)
New Posting on the Thunder Board - How it works.
November 20th - via: kickstarter.com
We have just released a new post on how the Thunder Board works. We show a block diagram and go through the AS3935 embedded detection algorithm. Check it out: http://www.switchdoc.com/2017/11/tutorial-how-does-a-lightning-detector-work/ John... (Read More)
More news on the Thunder Board from Testing Central
November 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Folks, We started testing the Thunder Board engineering prototypes on the Raspberry Pi today. Good news! It works with the Raspberry Pi and works with GroveWeatherPi! There is joy in Mudville! Best regards, John C. Shovic, PhDCTOSwitchDoc Labs... (Read More)
Live Stream coming at 11:00am today
November 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Dr. John Shovic is talking about the Internet of Things and how to build your own IOT device, including a description of the Thunder Board IOT Kit (Read More)
The Thunder Board in action!
November 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Folks, We have our engineering prototypes working with the Arduino as of last night! This is a quick video of the Thunder Board IOT project with one of our two prototypes installed. It works! This is our lightning board simulator prototype... (Read More)
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