[peter_4059 (Peter)]

With the cloudy summer weather approaching, I decided I needed a new project. I've never really understood what Arduino micro controllers were all about so decided to investigate. A trip to Jaycar last weekend, a bag full of goodies and a few hours of youtube later I now have a basic weather station connected to the PC reporting the light, barometric pressure, relative humidity, temperature, sky temperature, dew point and rain every 5 seconds.

I was surprised at how easy it was to set up the electronics and write the Arduino code. The difficult part that I'll be embarking on next is how to display that information and potentially integrate that into Ascom.

I'm quite keen on the Grafana type visual interface however I have a lot of questions to set me on a productive path as I'm staring from zero knowledge so watch this space.

Images to come.