Kickstarter Weather Board for the Raspberry Pi over 300%
Our new GROVE Kickstarter “The Weather Board for the Raspberry Pi” was fully funded in less than 24 hours. We now have over 68 backers and are over 50% towards our first Stretch Goal of $10,000. If we meet $10,000, we will add a free Pi2Grover board into each pledge over $100.
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The Weather Board for the Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi is a fabulous little computer. Inexpensive and easy to use and build projects with. What is one of the things that has been missing from the Raspberry Pi? The ability to easily build a weather station using this fine computer. The he problems with our boards and other boards in the past is that they were NOT 5V compatible and not completely Grove compatible. We are now Grove compatible AND 3.3V / 5V compatible. Woohoo!
“The Weather Board for the Raspberry Pi” kickstarter is designed to bring the ability to actually construct a working weather station within the reach of people of all ages and abilities. The Weather Board is designed to require no soldering to connect up (by using Grove Connectors) the unit and comes with Python software to make it work out of the box. And what else about this software is special? It is open source. We give you the source code. This is not a closed system.
The magic of this board is that it provides all the needed interfaces and plugs to convert your Raspberry Pi into a real Weather Station.
Board Compatibility
The Weather Board works with the Arduino and ESP8266 in addition to the Raspberry Pi. It’s the 3.3V/5V compatibility that does that.
The Weather Board for the Raspberry Pi
What is a Grove Connector?
The way we have been wiring I2C connections before just didn’t work for building fast and quick IOT projects. Then we found Grove.
There are hundreds of Grove Devices from multiple manufacturers around the world. Just check out Seeedstudio. Just for a quick look at over 100 boards.
You can’t plug it in backwards. If you put the connector in the wrong plug it just doesn’t work. No smoke. No fire. This makes us happy as we look over into our Box Of Death, filled with boards we have ruined.
We quickly found the Grove connectors and their respective cables very useful. With the large selection of Grove I2C devices available, we decided to include a Grove connector on all our future boards and products.
For more information, check out our full Grove Tutorial here.
This sounds like a great Kickstarter project!
First of all, sorry for the newbie questions, I have never done electronics before and Raspberry Pi is something very foreign to me. But I’m at a stage of renovating my house and feels that this could be an interesting add-on to monitor indoor and outdoor temp and weather.
If I back this project, for the Early Bird Dual Pack, does it mean I can monitor both indoor and outdoor weather? I don’t intend to have the Weather Rack, just temperature, humidity and light/UV sensors would be enough data for me.
And do I have to connect to a Raspberry Pi (self bought) for it to work?
Does the Dual Pack comes with the temp/humidity Grove sensors?
This is an additional question: if you are familiar with the Magic Mirror project, would this integrate well with it?
Hi Kuan,
No problem about newbie question. We all have to build the first project!
1) No A dual pack just gets you two Weather Boards. You can buy an AM2315 Grove for outdoor temperature and humidity.
Sure you can integrate this with the Magic Mirror project. These works well with the Raspberry Pi. I you are looking to use a Raspberry Pi based system, you might look at this too: Pi2Grover Grove Interface
Best,
SDL
Copy that. Thanks for the quick reply.
Another question, if I’m getting the Weather Rack, does it mean that I only need to supply power to the rack? The data collection will be beamed back wirelessly to the weather board or how? Since the Weather Rack needs to be placed in an open space and away from things that could affect its readings.
The weatherrack doesn’t require power. However, you do need to run wires from your base unit to the weatherrack from the weather board. In the next few months we are releasing a wireless link for the weatherrack. It is solar powered so you just mount the unit on the pole with the weatherrack. It works in the lab but it has not been released to production.
Best regards,
SDL