This is were I will be documenting my work in creating a DIY weather station for monitoring and recording my own local weather in southern Maine. The goal of this project is to both build a weather station and to get ROS2 programming experience, so I will be utilizing other projects and advice to create my weather station and convert the code to ROS2.

In this first blog post I will be going over the hardware chosen for the project. This may not be a complete list yet as there are likely additional cables connectors and housings I will discover I need as the project continues.

Main Hardware and Sensors

• Raspberry Pi: I will be using a Raspberry Pi3 model B because I already own it. This should be fine because it can use the equivalent of ubuntu 18.04 in raspbian.
• BME280 Temperature, Humidity and Pressure Sensor
• UVA / UVB sensor
• Ground Temperature Sensor
• Wind / Rain Sensor

Extras

• 2x 4.7k Ohm resistors
• bread board wires
• bread board
• MCP3008 - 8-Channel 10-Bit ADC With SPI Interface

I followed an already existing guide to initially order the hardware and will probably use it as a reference to software construction as well. I added the UVB / UVA sensor because I want to monitor the changing UVB levels as we go through Grand Solar Minimum. That's all for now next post will be about installing ROS2 on the raspberry pi3.

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