you know what would be neat? gameified weather detection...

[plonk420]

would kind of be neat if there was a BOINC project where people with Arduino or similar devices could collect various weather datatypes (maybe a max number of reports per x minutes), and a non-linear points multiplier for every additional location you have (maybe more points the further you are away from other collection devices)...

and of course, all the weather data open source

[Dirk Broer]

would kind of be neat if there was a BOINC project where people with Arduino or similar devices could collect various weather datatypes (maybe a max number of reports per x minutes), and a non-linear points multiplier for every additional location you have (maybe more points the further you are away from other collection devices)...

and of course, all the weather data open source

Could this (https://openweathermap.org/) be what you are after?

[plonk420]

come again? (bad link, and google didn't pull anything that seemed in-context...

[Dirk Broer]

come again? (bad link, and google didn't pull anything that seemed in-context...
Try again (good link now)

[plonk420]

even more? granular than that. like many people every square mile contributing (if possible). might make for some crazy weather data stats collection abilities (and maybe some kind of prediction)

[Dirk Broer]

Computer-connected amateur weather stations in the UK (https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wea.1980)

[NeoGen]

That looks pretty neat, but doesn't give cobblestones. :icon_mrgreen:


The cost of these weather stations ranges from £100 to in excess of £1000; the majority of them comprise an outdoor sensor suite with an indoor electronic console to display and log the observations. Once the console is connected to an internet‐enabled computer, the data can be uploaded automatically using software such as Weather Display, Cumulus or WeatherSnoop, all of which may be downloaded from the internet. The model seems pretty simple and straightforward. This article is from 2013, so I'd bet that those weather stations are much cheaper these days... or if not then they must have a lot higher resolution or more sensors.

[Dirk Broer]

Raspberry WeatherHat (https://www.kiwi-electronics.nl/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-expansion-boards/overige-raspberry-pi-hats-addons/weatherhat-voor-raspberry-pi)

https://youtu.be/7f_T8PWMZSQ

[Dirk Broer]

Arduino Sparkfun Weather Shield (https://www.kiwi-electronics.nl/arduino-platform/arduino-shields/sparkfun-weather-shield)
https://www.kiwi-electronics.nl/image/cache/data/products/sparkfun/shields/SF-DEV-13956-1-684x456.jpg

[NeoGen]

Interesting... I wonder how those would fare versus the expensive ones from the article. I mean in terms of accuracy of the sensors and such.

[plonk420]

TIL of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake-Catcher_Network

"The Quake-Catcher Network is an initiative run by the University of Southern California that aims to use computer-based accelerometers to detect earthquakes.[1] It uses the BOINC volunteer computing platform (a form of distributed computing, similar to SETI@home)..."

[Dirk Broer]

I tried for months to connect to QCN, using a Raspberry Pi with sense hat -which has an accelerometer too. All for nought in the end.

[plonk420]

dang. at least there's SOME infrastructure in place if someone starts it up again...

[Dirk Broer]

dang. at least there's SOME infrastructure in place if someone starts it up again...

Is it? Have you tried to connect lately?