{"id":15287,"date":"2016-08-19T18:47:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T17:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15287"},"modified":"2016-08-19T18:47:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T17:47:17","slug":"build-your-own-solar-powered-weather-station-with-a-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15287","title":{"rendered":"Build your own solar-powered weather station with a Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/github.com\/masneyb\/weather-station\/raw\/master\/images\/weather-station-complete.jpg?resize=560%2C373&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brian Masney has taken a Raspberry Pi Zero and hooked up a load of sensors to create a weather station. He has fixed solar panels to the top for power and the sensors include ones for\u00a0wind\u00a0speed and direction, rain, temperature, pressure, and dew point. He&#8217;s using the popular BMP180 for some of these plus an MCP3008 analog-to-digital converter to read the analog values. He&#8217;s written the whole thing up with lots of lovely details and posted it over on GitHub. <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/masneyb\/weather-station\" target=\"_blank\">Head over there for full details and to see the code<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/github.com\/masneyb\/weather-station\/raw\/master\/images\/weather-station-inside-box.jpg?resize=560%2C373&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Masney has taken a Raspberry Pi Zero and hooked up a load of sensors to create a weather station. 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