General post on weather station

I have been busy with work and working on and off with the weather station. I have been working a bit on the FARS lately and have gone with plant pot basses with a 120mm diameter and made a 50mm hole in the centre for sensors and a 50mm PC fan I found/had lying around. I used 160mm 5mm thread bar by three, I used straws to hold each base at 10mm apart; each base is 20mm, 10mm is half way where the centre rim is, so it gives a nice overlap.

Weather Station - Anemometer

So I have been working on the anemometer on and off for the last month as I have also been working on another project. I have also been working on the final design of the weather vane setup and slicing my thumb :) This will be part one of this part of the weather station, discussing mainly the anemometer.

The basic build

Weather Station - General Update

A general update of the weather station. The anemometer is coming along nicely, except for changes in final design and construction which I keep making. I am working on a build post for that, which should be up soon.

I received components I ordered the other day so that I can start getting some basic data.

I have a BMP180, DHT22, and 2 RFM12Bs, pictured below for fun:

I have so far tested the DHT22 with the library from Adafruit, it worked well.
I have yet to have some time to test the other stuff and also to find a suitable library for the RFM12 module which doesn't have a heap load of stuff added in. I also have to make level shifters for the two transceivers.

I got these through a local distributor for SparkFun Electronics who had reasonable prices, which is better than paying the import costs and overseas postage.

A new name! Barium Electronics

So I have been toying with some names for my business & blog as the name is representative of my blog and of my actual business I have. I have thus officially re-named my blog and business today as:

•     The company is not too big that it will cause a huge mess with customers and my blog.
•     Search the word Ziggy, Ziggy Electronics or ZE this gave some weird  results which are not fit for a business when customers search.
•      Most people scoff at the name? Or at least a quizzical look, possibly the odd word.

So I have changed the name to something unique and more related to the electronics side:

Barium Electronics 

This is a name which is not used as a company name by anyone I can find. This should make the blog easily found by search engines as not much turns up in electronics projects, this should increase the traffic.

Weather Station - Rain Gauge

For the first build post I will be starting with the rain gauge. This is based off the tipping bucket rain gauge method. These are pretty easy to make and get running.