Before you do, please note that we’ve designed the build to be as straight-forward as possible, but it’s still fairly advanced both in terms of electronics and programming. We think this is a great project to tackle at home, at a STEM club, Scout group, or CoderDojo, and we’re sure that many of you will be chomping at the bit to get started. The guide shows you how to solder together all the components, similar to the original Oracle Weather Station HAT. And in case you want to move past the breadboard stage, we also help you with that. There’s also a section on how to make your station weatherproof. It shows you how to put together a breadboard prototype, it describes how to write Python code to take readings in different ways, and it guides you through recording these readings in a database. Many other tutorials for Pi-powered weather stations don’t explain how the various sensors work or how to store your data. As you know, the Raspberry Pi is incredibly versatile, and we’ve made it easy to hack the design in case you want to use different sensors. Our guide suggests the use of many of the sensors from the Oracle Weather Station kit, so can build a station that’s as close as possible to the original.

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