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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 →

The struggle is over! It looks like we had the right idea with our code as previously written, but the problem rested with the actual port we were using. It looks like the serial pins we were using were the … Continue reading →

The last couple of weeks have been drama packed, kids. Freya is stretching her fledgling TS-4200 wings trying to connect to a PIC chip, but this seems to be too much for her. Or rather her flailing programmer. Thus far, … Continue reading →

This weather system is a never ending onion, so ridiculously layered! Everyday I set an objective for learning about some aspect of the system, which I am still embarrassed to admit that I was completely unaware of until too recently. … Continue reading →

Maybe the title was a tip off to the change in management of this blog, or maybe it was the elapsed two years, but as Chance the Rapper proclaimed and I lifted for this title, WE BACK. By which I … Continue reading →

Wunderground protocol for uploading data to a personal weatherstation http://wiki.wunderground.com/index.php/PWS_-_Upload_Protocol —- Two radar animations (perhaps for our site), courtesy of WeatherUnderground: http://icons.wunderground.com/data/640×480/mw_ir_anim.gif http://icons.wunderground.com/data/640×480/mw_rd_anim.gif —- From Tom: I found these bits of information on the weather exchange file formatting: http://ambientweather.wikispaces.com/Weather+Exchange+csv+File+Format http://www.thunderheadtech.com/WxSolution/   … Continue reading →

Well, looks like this is it. I uploaded all my code to COLLAB in the folder weatherFinal along with my documentation file. It’s been lots of fun, feel free to give me a holler if anything breaks or something is … Continue reading →

I got the changes we talked about yesterday implemented. Some of them work, some of them don’t, and a few are questionable. Here is a summary: Added dawn/dusk and the cannon river link to the homepage Added a bar to … Continue reading →

Well, I got the time thing to work, i’m not really sure why it works but it does. I made a backup in case we want to revert. Also got the nav bar finalized and made some headway on my … Continue reading →

The whole unixtime problem from the first page gave me such a headache by lunch that I put it away for the day. I think that there is some small detail in the PHP functions that I am missing. This … Continue reading →