Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Other Hobbies and Interests => Topic started by: JohnneyBoy on June 21, 2007, 09:11:52 am
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Hello,
Other than model boats, or the collecting of kits and doing little else with them ;D. I have been working on a weather station, over the last 5+ years now! It's built from various bits and bobs, kits. It started out as just wind speed and direction, and has constantly been expanded. I think I am now running out of sensors I can put on it. The data from it is uploaded to the web, see http://www.johnbass.co.uk/Weather
I have a other interests, which some of them are on the main part of the site. http://www.johnbass.co.uk
Photography is also a big interest, just look around the mayhem web site, you might find the odd few ;)
John
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Very nice John, interesting website,
thanks
Nige
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Great job John on the weather station, also on the photos, you have always done the Alfold Charity Mode Boat Show proud.
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Hi John,
Here's an interesting weather station here in Peterborough that someone pointed out to me last week:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/trev.bp1/livedisplay.html (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/trev.bp1/livedisplay.html)
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Nice!
For a moment there I thought you were perhaps the same chap who posted a similar thread some 2'ish years ago, but I see you've posted just 38 times, thus deduced that you ain't he. Although, you've prompted me to revisit another stab at a homemade Wx station.
Some time ago I cobbled together an anemometer, made with parts from B&Q, a CDROM motor and one of those bike computers from Halfords. It worked surprisingly well, until one particular stormy night when the anem' was last seen heading towards Pluto. In the end I dumped the bike computer idea in favour of a PIC. 'Twas then just a matter of stuffing the data from the guages/sensors into the PIC, then reading the results on a 2x16 LCD. The difficulty is trying to calibrate the anem' while driving along at a constant speed.
Keep up the good work.