New Kickstarter is Live! The Weather Board for the Raspberry Pi!
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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.
Coming in the Next Few Days
We will be describing the Weather Board for the Raspberry Pi and releasing the specification!