Update Thursday, 07/14/2018: Our weather station is now fitted with a temperature, humidity and pressure sensor. The chart below shows the data collected over the last two weekends.
Fred Buls is now working on connecting the weather station to the campus wifi. Once connected the internet the Arduino will transmit real time data to a webpage. The data will be made public for anyone to use.
Update Thursday, 06/28/2018: Do you know how much rain the Clarkston campus received last weekend? Our Arduino rain gauge estimated 0.24 inches!
The data collected by the Arduino had a number of spurious data points which we attribute to poor electrical connections in the circuit (the circuitry still uses a breadboard with no soldered connections). Always important to check the data before analyses.
Fred now plans to add a temperature, humidity and pressure sensor to the system.
Update Friday, 06/22/2018: The rain just missed us, not a single tip was recorded on the Arduino over Thursday night. Hoping for some rain over the weekend!
In preparation for a rainy Thursday night, we deployed the Arduino powered tipping bucket rain gauge. The new gauge has been set up next to an existing rain gauge between the C and G buildings on the Clarkston campus.
Thank you, Fred, for working on this project and thanks to everyone to who came out to support the first Arduino project!
Stayed tuned for updates on how the Arduino rain gauge performed and for rain data collected by the gauge.
