Perhaps one of the ubiquitous projects that you will find on the Internet is a simple weather station. A basic weather station is a great project because it shows what is possible for sensing the environment and it’s a project almost anyone can relate to. After all, the weather is often a topic in almost every polite social interaction. If you had your own weather station, particularly one you created yourself, you could contribute a bit more to the conversation!
In this chapter, we will create a basic weather station. It isn’t a full weather station because it doesn’t include some of the more frequent ...