[OpenRelief Developer] Weather station (was: Re: Electronics & Power)

[Shane Coughlan]

Hi Karl

On Apr 17, 2012, at 4:59 PM, Karl Lattimer wrote:
>> I understand we are also working off the Nanode systems, and Andrew has obtained two of these for our hacking pleasure. 
>> I wanted to see if there was an update on the weather station front?  I understand that Andrew was sending you one of the Nanode for the prototyping?
>> 
> 
> I've already assembled the nanode and I've got a collection of parts for the weather station including humidity sensor and dallas 1 wire thermometer - also I have designed boards for the wind direction rotary encoder and the submersion sensor. 
> There's a small amount of design and build left on the weather station as far as electronics are concerned - the nanode being the majority of the work. 
> I'm in need of a FTDI cable (nanode lacks FTDI for USB), which I'll hopefully be able to pick up on ebay shortly.

I wanted to check in on the status of the weather station. I believe you mentioned some progress on Facebook the other day, and I thought it might be good to summarize where we are at for the rest of the Dev team.

Shane