The SparkFun weather:bit is a fully loaded “carrier” board for the micro:bit that, when combined with the micro:bit, provides you with a fully functional weather station.

With the weather:bit you will have access to barometric pressure, relative humidity and temperature readings. There are also connections on this carrier board to optional sensors such as wind speed, direction, rain gauge and soil readings! The micro:bit has a lot of features and a lot of potential for weather data collection.

The weather:bit connects to the micro:bit via an edge connector at the top of the board, making setup easy. This creates a handy way to swap out micro:bits for programming, while still providing reliable connections to all of the different pins on the micro:bit. SparkFun have also included serial and I²C ports on the weather:bit for optimized connectivity if you so choose.

More about micro:bit and Sparkfun available at https://youtu.be/APcshxydBYI

Features:

• Onboard temperature, humidity, pressure and light sensor
• Connectors for soil moisture and soil temperature
• Connectors for wind speed, direction and rainfall gauges
• Edge connector for easy micro:bit integration

Description:

This kit includes the sensor parts to build your own DIY weather station

Includes the below parts:

• 1 x Wind direction sensor
  
• 1 x Wind speed sensor
• 1 x Rain gauge sensor
• 1 x Mast 570mm
• 1 x Top double arm bracket
  
• 2 x Side single arm brackets
  
• cable ties
• clamps

The SparkFun Photon Weather Shield is an easy-to-use add-on board that grants you access to barometric pressure, relative humidity, and temperature. There are also connections on this shield to optional sensors such as wind speed, direction, rain gauge and soil readings!

These Weather Shields utilize the Si7021 temperature/humidity and MPL3115A2 barometric pressure sensors. Each shield comes with two RJ11 connectors (for optional hookup of rain and wind sensors) and a 3-pin soil temperature and moisture hookup. Finally, each Weather Shield can attach effectively and easily to your Photon in no time at all!

The Particle Photon is a tiny WiFi development kit for creating connected projects and products. Sporting a 120MHz ARM Cortex M3 and built-in WiFi, the Photon is not only powerful but easy to use. The small form factor is ideal for IoT projects with cloud connectivity.

Tutorial available at https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/photon-weather-shield-hookup-guide-v11?_ga=2.23032699.1516636509.1529323495-1940173922.1507527227

Features

1).Outdoor wireless sensor (range up to 100 meter)
2) Detail display of rainfall data in 1hour, 24hour, week, month
   and total since last reset(user selectable in inch or mm) 
3) Indoor  and outdoor temperature (°F to °C)
4) Time and date with manual setting option 
5) 12 /24 hour time mode 
6) Calendar 
7) Time zone setting 
9)Time alarm    
9) Free standing

Specifications:

1) Rainfall display range: 0 to 19,999mm
2) Outdoor temperature range: -40 ~ +65°C (-40°F to +149°F)
3) Indoor temperature range: -9.9 ~ +60°C (-15.8°F to +176°F)
4) Temperature accuracy: ±1.0°C5) Power requirements: 
  a) Receiver: 2 x "AA" alkaline batteries (not included)
  b) Rain gauge: 2 x "AAA" alkaline batteries (not included)
5)Transmission range: up to 100meters( 330feet)
6) Transmission frequency: 433MHz

Package includes:
1 x Rain Gauge
1 x Receiver
1 x User Manual
2 x Screws

Product Description

• Junction box
• T160
• weather proof IP66
• 190 x 150 x 75

• Junction box
• T60
• weather proof IP66
• 110 x 110 x 55

• Wide Supply Voltage range : 2.4V - 5.5V
• Lightning Sensing: 40 km Range with accuracy of 1km in 14 steps
• Detects both cloud-to-ground and cloud-to-cloud flashes
• Embedded ‘man made’ disturbance rejection algorithm
• Programmable Detection Levels,Lightning detection thresholds are programmable (outdoor vs indoor, for example)
• Distance to storm estimation
• "Disturber" (false event) rejection algorithm
• Indoor and Outdoor Settings
• SPI and I2C Interfaces
• Qwiic Enabled

• Wind direction sensor
• Wind speed sensor

The Wildlife Cam Case has been designed and made by tech and conservation experts in the UK and are perfect for those who want to take their electronics outdoors but already have any of the Raspberry Pi models or own some of the electronics included in the full Wildlife Cam Kit.

Features:

• Weatherproof (certified IP55)
• Fresnel IR lens to optimise motion detection
• Electronics mount compatible with all models of Raspberry Pi (including model B and Zero models)
• Clip and hinge opening for easy access to the Pi’s ports and internal components
• Nylon camera attachment strap for securing outside
• Can be secured with a bike lock
• Fastenings and spacers for attaching electronics
• Rear cable access
• Rear attachments for modular upgrades
• No soldering required
• Dimensions when closed 165mm x 112mm x 78mm

Want to build a Weather Station with the board?

Look at these two sources (more on the way):

WeatherBoard Specification - http://www.switchdoc.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/WeatherBoard_CurrentSpecification.pdf

New GroveWeatherPi Tutorial - http://www.switchdoc.com/2016/08/tutorial-part-1-building-a-solar-powered-raspberry-pi-weather-station-groveweatherpi/

Weather Board[/caption] The Weather Board is a weather station controller board designed to interface to Arduino and Raspberry Pi computers.  It is an interface board developed by SwitchDoc Labs to allow the user to easily build a fully functioned Weather Station while allowing customization of functions. The Weather Board is derived from Project Curacao and the WeatherPiArduino.  Generation 1 of this board was deployed and tested in Curacao before Generation 2 was released to production.  The full WeatherPiArduino article was published in Raspberry Pi Geek magazine in September, 2014 and a follow up article has been published in April, 2015 (including the new lightning detector).  The Weather Board comes with a SwitchDoc Labs DS3231/EEPROM board. Combine the Weather Board with a SunAir or SunAirPlus board to create a solar powered weather station.

 Block Diagram



Jumper and pug locations

Downloads for the Weather Board

New!    The new Weather Board software auto detects your weather devices and can be configured for the MOD-1016G Lightning Detector and SunAirPlus for Solar Power.

• Arduino Software is here.
• Arduino Software for the WeatherRack and the Weather Board is here.
• Raspberry Pi Software is here.
• WeatherRack Software can be found here.
• You can download the Full Weather Board Specification here .   The specification contains wiring lists for connecting the Weather Board to the Raspberry Pi and the Arduino family of products.

Interfaces on Weather Board

• I2C for Raspberry Pi and Arduino (Board works at 3.3V and 5V)
• RJ11 Plugs installed for SwitchDoc Labs WeatherRack, etc.
• Wind Vane, Rain Bucket, Anemometer computer connections for Raspberry Pi and Arduino
• Grove Connections for all interfaces

I2C devices Included with the Weather Board

• DS3231 RTC With EEPROM
• BMP280 Barometer and Temperature Sensor

Plug in I2C Interfaces provided

• Embedded Adventures I2C Lightning Detector MOD-1016 board
• Adafruit HTU21D-F Temperature/Humidity breakout board
• Adafruit 32KB FRAM I2C breakout board
• Adafruit ADS1015 4 Channel A/D I2C board

I2C Device Specifications

BMP280 (Barometer / Temperature) DS3231 (Real Time Clock) AT24C32 (EEPROM) ADS1015 (12 bit ADC) AS3935 (MOD-1016 - Lightning Detector) HTU21D-F (Humidity) FRAM (32KB Fast Non-Volatile Storage)

Want to build a control panel for the Weather Board?  Look at this post and the picture below:

 The SDL_Weather_80422 class library is designed to provide all the functions of the SwitchDoc WeatherRack, ArgentData Weather Sensors,  SparkFun Weather Meters SEN-08942 in one C++ class. The library is easy to use and hides the complexity of the interface to the sensors.  The C++ class has two Interrupt Service Routines (ISR), one each for the anemometer and the rain bucket.  The wind vane is connected to an Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) input pin on the Arduino.  Note that the C++ class is designed to be a singleton, in other words, you only can interface one sensor package without some additional work (mostly involving Interrupts).  The article in Raspberry Pi Geek magazine discusses this in detail. There are two main modes for the class.

SDL_MODE_SAMPLE

SDL_MODE_SAMPLE mode means return immediately after asking for the wind speed. The wind speed is averaged at sampleTime or since you last asked, whichever is longer. If the sample time has not passed since the last call, the class returns the last calculated wind speed. That means that you will never see changes faster than the specified sample time. This allows you to not wait for the wind speed, you can just grab the last valid reading.

SDL_MODE_DELAY

SDL_MODE_DELAY mode means to wait for the set sample time to expire and return the average wind speed at the expiration. You would use this if you want to make sure you have the latest value and your program architecture allows you to pause for the sample time before continuing. Which mode you use depends on the specific software architecture of your Arduino application. Typically, I use SDL_MODE_SAMPLE because I can tolerate not having a current value of wind speed. The example code for the SDL_Weather_80422 library is shown below: