Re: ADVANCE WARNING !!! Everyday Practical Electronics - AUGUST 2003

["wayne" <wayne@xxxxxxx>]

Looks cool!

Now all thats involved is for somone to stick together a kit thats as plug
and play for us computer people who just plug cards in a PC!

Any takers!

Wayne.

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> "EPE PIC MET OFFICE"
> Solid state weather station based on a PIC16F877
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> Barometric Pressure in millibars
> Temperature in C and F including Sub Zero
> Amospheric relative humidity as an RH percentage
> Soil Moisture , bone-dry to saturated as a percentage
> Light intensity as a relative percentage , full sun to total darkness
> Rain Fall, immediate
> Rain Fall , cumulative
> Wind Speed kph, mph, beaufort - immediate and averaged
> Wind direction - immediate and averaged - 0 to 360 deg
> Wind chill factor
> Rainbow alert
> Recording of all data to non-volatile serial memory - upto 256kB
> Selectable data sampling rates from 1 second to 1 hour intervals
> Serial output of realtime and recorded data to PC.
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