Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Raspberry Pi + Weather Station = A bit of fun

Over the past six months or so I have been working on a new release of the UK Met Office's WOW service. It's been a fun project so when my Dad's birthday rolled around earlier in the year I decided the best way to show him what I was working on was to give him a weather station and hook it up to WOW.

In the end I bought him a USB weather station and a Raspberry Pi and hooked the two together to upload data to the web. I have finally gotten around to writing up some instructions for the project and have posted them on github along with a couple of bash and udev files to make the process easier.

For anyone who is interested in using a Raspberry Pi to upload data from their USB weather station the instructions are here: http://trastle.github.com/rpi-weather/



Enjoy.