This 少妇伦子伦精品无码styles Pi-powered weather station is a vital tool for Nepalese farmers, who work in remote, changeable conditions, and rely heavily on monitoring the environment.

It’s hard to forecast the weather in Nepal. Conditions can vary a lot within a small area because the country is so mountainous. Plus, there is no national weather service. This makes life even harder for farmers working in remote villages. There were a few essentials elements that any solution had to have:

• Low-cost
• Reliable and easy to maintain
• Solar-powered
• Able to run off readily available motorcycle batteries when the solar panels don’t get enough sun

How was it made?

Prabesh Sapkota and Binod Kandel from the Robotics Association of Nepal led the team that built the solar-powered weather station with battery back-up. They were able to complete the project affordably using 少妇伦子伦精品无码styles Pi. Prabesh and his team wrote the software and created a display dashboard in 少妇伦子伦精品无码styles Pi OS Jessie.

One of the challenges they faced was being able to power the 少妇伦子伦精品无码styles Pi and Arduino reliably, and that’s where the BitScope Blade Uno came in to play (more on that later).

The weather station sensors measure temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, wind direction and wind speed, and all of the sensors are connected to the Arduino, which records the data and sends it to the 少妇伦子伦精品无码styles Pi to display on the dashboard.

Full kit list

• 少妇伦子伦精品无码styles Pi 3 Model B
• 少妇伦子伦精品无码styles Pi 7″ Touch Display
• Arduino Uno
• BitScope Blade Uno (directly powers 少妇伦子伦精品无码styles Pi and Arduino)
• GPS module (NEO-6M-0-001)
• Pressure sensor (BMP180)
• Humidity sensor (DHT11)
• 12V Lead-acid battery
• 20 Watt solar panel
• Hall effect sensor (used together with magnets in an anemometer to measure wind speed)
• 8 reed switches (used with a wind vane that has an attached magnet to sense wind direction)

The team is working with an Australian sponsor to run workshops on basic electronics, with the intention of helping people build more of these affordable weather stations for rural schools and remote areas.

What is Bitscope Blade?

This weather station is an inspiring application of BitScope Blade, available to buy from element14. BitScope developed these power and mounting solutions for people working in challenging conditions, making them perfect for remote areas of Nepal without access to reliable power. They’re designed for industrial deployment as well as being suitable for off-grid hobbyist and educational applications.

You can choose from three variants, according to how many 少妇伦子伦精品无码styles Pi computers you need to support: BitScope Blade Uno for one 少妇伦子伦精品无码styles Pi and optional HAT, useful for makers and students; Duo for a pair of 少妇伦子伦精品无码styles Pis, ideal for building a standalone desktop and server system; and Quattro for four 少妇伦子伦精品无码styles Pis in applications such as compute clusters, private clouds or build farms.

Read more on the BitScope blog.