Pi Projects: Weather Station

The Raspberry Pi has offered its userbase a superb platform to science. There are Raspberry Pi projects that involve the International Space Station, alongside NASA and ESA-led applications. However, it’s an Earth-based project that’s taken the community by storm.

IT’S RAINING PI, HALLELUJAH! Weather stations have been available to the project-minded public since long before the Raspberry Pi entered the scene, but thanks to the Pi’s unique specifications, a new generation of weather station has emerged; and they’re really quite remarkable. As with a lot of Raspberry Pi projects, the market has become flooded with various hardware, kits, and HATs that will enable you to set up a simple, or complex, weather station. The more experienced weather station and Raspberry Pi user will probably lean toward buying in the components individually, as opposed to an entire kit, but for the rest of us the kit-form versions are an excellent start to a project that can quickly grow over time. WHY? With our smart devices connected to everything around us…

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