Monthly Archives: June 2015

As Doug warned yesterday, it turns out there is a possibility of the board “chopping” the PIC’s data — timing out mid-read and not getting the whole string. Thus far, I have observed this only with a timeout of 0 … Continue reading →

We got our serial port working today, thanks to a mini weather station Tom rigged up. After some brief debugging we were happily sending commands and receiving data. I’ve since tested a number of cases: receiving manually requested data, reading … Continue reading →

A week’s worth of updates for whosoever is interested: A whole new tower is going up in the Carleton Arboretum, complete with solar panels, ultrasonic snow depth sensor, and more anemometers than you can shake two sticks at. Naturally, I’ve … Continue reading →