Wire rope, cable clips, and turnbuckle - Wire rope with clips should survive extreme conditions.An eyebolt with a lead anchor makes a very secure connection to the cement block. Eyebolts and concrete anchors - Ballast is useless if you can't attach to it securely.Cement ballast - Solid concrete blocks can be found for a few dollars at a hardware store.The weather meters should come with a few to get you started. 2' Hose Clamps - Sometimes called worm clamps, these connect the weather meter to the headless camera tripod.

Handful-o-zipties - If you don't have these laying around, you'll need some to secure the various charging and weather meter cables.

Camera Tripod - We found a cheap one on Amazon for $20 and chopped the camera mount off.

Solar Shield - We got ours from Ambient Weather.

Here are additional parts that SparkFun doesn't carry:

SparkFun RedBoard Programmed with Arduinoīelow is a wishlist to make things a bit easier: You Will Also Need.

Here are the parts we used to build our weather station: Add it to your cart, read through the guide, and adjust the cart as necessary. You may not need everything though depending on what you have. To follow along with this tutorial, you will need the following materials. We recommend using a larger solar panel like the 3.5W, 6W, or 9W solar panels to achieve the Sunny Buddy's minimum voltage input requirements.

The Sunny Buddy's output charge current measured was about 7mA since the 2W solar panel was not able to reach the minimum input voltage requirements. Heads up! Under real world conditions, the Sunny Buddy may not be able to charge a LiPo battery sufficiently with the 2W solar panel. Gusting speed + direction for the last 60 minutes.Gusting speed + direction for the last 2 minutes.This example will show you how to report the following bits of weather: The above link shows how to push temperature data to the web, but you can also post a large number of other weather metrics. Congrats! You've just published your first weather data to the Internet of Things. You can then view the weather station data you just posted here. Using this ID and password, we can push weather data with a simple HTTP POST command: Ĭopy and paste the above code into a browser, and press return. You fill out a form, pick a username and password, then get a station ID. Wunderground makes it really easy to setup your own weather station.

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