Tag Archives: sensor

Soil Temperature Probe

Posted on April 13, 2019 by jimhannon

A soil temperature probe has been on my todo list for a while. So I decided to build one now along with a number of other improvements, and repairs to my weather station. The soil temperature at four inch depth … Continue reading →

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Rain Sensor

Posted on January 1, 2019 by jimhannon

I thought it would be interesting to add a rain sensor to my tipping bucket rain gauge. Because it take time for the bucket to fill and does not always tip right when it stops raining a sensor that detects … Continue reading →

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UVA UVB Sensor

Posted on March 1, 2018 by jimhannon

I have a commercial UV Index sensor running but I found an IC sensor chip that would measure UVA and UVB separately and thought it would be interesting to see how the two UV bands varied with respect to each … Continue reading →

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IoT Rain Gauge

Posted on February 2, 2018 by jimhannon

On thing that is missing from my weather station is automatic reporting of rain fall. I have a manually read CoCoRaHS rain gauge which is more accurate than say a tipping bucket gauge but I thought it would be nice … Continue reading →

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Infrasonic Microphone Part I

Posted on April 5, 2013 by jimhannon

Another sensor planed for my atmospheric observatory is an infrasonic microphone. I have a design sketched out and have started on fabricating the mechanical bits needed. So what is an infrasonic microphone  good for? The recent Chelyabinsk meteor was detected … Continue reading →

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Imbedded Software Development

Posted on December 15, 2012 by jimhannon

A while back I decided to pick a processor and development environment to use for making a number of sensors I want to build. Each sensor requires requires some processing to read or digitize the sensor output and either log … Continue reading →

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WiFi Sensor Network

Posted on June 6, 2012 by jimhannon

I have been slowly building the infrastructure needed for Otter Creek Research Station, my long term amateur science project. The basic concept is to have a variety of atmospheric condition sensors continuously recording data and made available on a web … Continue reading →

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