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Andy Pepler

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  1. not posted in a while but i had to report this ..

     

    about 40 mins ago while walking in to my local town center a real heavy downpour happend .. i have never seen rain so hard and in such amounts before .it was that heavy it was setting car alarms off and it was sheeting off the roofs in what it looked like one solid sheet .. looked at the nwradar and i was under a purple spot :O .. epic was not the word ..

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  2. my new lighting sensor arrived today so i have been busy buliding it in to my sensor network .. it was sat on my bench hooked up to an ardunio and a wifi card and it was going nuts .. thought id fryed it or someting ..but no even sat on my bench it was picking up the storms 100miles south of me :O  ..so i take it we are gonna have gert lush storms down here ..i best put this bodge in a water proof box and get it outside and start logging :) .....

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  3. woha that was a bit warm today :) not been on mutch i have been buliding my new weather station ..open source cheap as chips sensors ectect so i am in the middle of buliding my uber weather station with air quality giger counter and lightning :)

     

    iv gone a bit mad for this

     

    anyway have some data :)

     

  4. hya

     

    has anyone bulit a ardunio based wireless weather station useing mysensors and a home automation system .. i have been playing around on this cold and wet summers weekend ..

     

    i have made a serial gateway that recieves the data from from many kinds of sensors ,plus i have made a node that deals with temp and pressure so far .. i have to make a rain/humidity sensor a wind/direction node and also a lightning sensor .plus a few more toys..with the free software i am useing i am able to log/display all of the sensors in real time .. plus upload it to any site..

     

     

    andy

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  5. oh man my head hurts .. after running around like a loon for 2 hours on top of westbury whitehorse /redhorn managed to get 4 hours in total footage from 4 cams ... my homemade lightning dector crapped out at 5000 strikes lol .. seen a fair few power flashes lastnight plus i am getting hords of phonecalls from people with dead adsl modems ..   anyway coffee and try to wake up ... i got 100 gig of stuff to start editing later on

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  6. oh man my head hurts .. after running around like a loon for 2 hours on top of westbury whitehorse /redhorn managed to get 4 hours in total footage from 4 cams ... my homemade lightning dector crapped out at 5000 strikes lol .. seen a fair few power flashes lastnight plus i am getting hords of phonecalls from people with dead adsl modems ..   anyway coffee and try to wake up ... i got 100 gig of stuff to start editing later on

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