Month: November 2015

Weather, here we go!

Finally! Just received my flashy, Ikea-furniture-matching-red Sparkfun box with my weather shield and the electric Imp, which means I should be ready to setup (or at least get up and running) my wireless weather station! I put together the weather sensors the other day. Pretty straight forward. The only one that would have used a little…

Truss builder

“What’s a truss?” You may be asking yourself. Well, trusses are some of the most ubiquitous structures holding our world together. They are light and very strong structures that can handle loads in many orientations or directions. They are “easy” to build when made in large scale, there are many equations and tables to help with…

First try with my DIY Weather Station Kit from [Anonymous Co.]

About a month and a half ago I moved to to my new place, and as you may guess, I’m still unpacking. In today unpacking activities, I found a bare cardboard box that was roughly sharpie-labeled with my handwriting as containing a “Weather station”. It took me a while to remember why the hell  I…