BU weather station project

Boston University Weather Station Project


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One of the projects that we've developed relates to the engineering curriculum thrust of Mission EARTH. The goal is to foster an integrated framework of GLOBE and engineering throughout the K - 12 + University system. The Boston University Mission EARTH team has partnered with Boston University's Dept of Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Capstone course to encourage the senior Mechanical Engineering students to design instruments that can be assembled by K-12 GLOBE partner schools, for use in gathering data for GLOBE and curriculum and exploring engineering concepts and tools.

We're very excited to share the first such project: a WiFi solar powered weather station. This project was designed primarily as an instruction manual that describes all the sensors and components involved, where to buy each component, and how to assemble the station. The project is in its final stages and we're working to add the data output stream to the GLOBE database. The project manual can be downloaded via the link below, and any questions can be directed to Prof Caleb Farny (farny@bu.edu):

/documents/18720200/45873665/Weather+station+manual/ef6d42da-cefb-4711-9ee5-46c4c0953849

Video tutorials on the project assembly:

Video 1: Introduction and overview, power management and buck/boost board preparation

Video 2: Board layout overview and BME280 board preparation

Video 3: Wire layouts for the board

Video 4: Board mounting and assembly

Video 5: LED on/off button overview

Video 6: Sensor connections to the assembled board

Video 7: Tripod mounting hardware, final assembly