NewProduct! OurWeather – Weather Kit for STEM

November 24, 2019 ESP32, Kickstarter, OurWeather, SwitchDoc Products, Weather

New Product! OurWeather – Weather Kit for STEM

Now Available!
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Checkout the OurWeather Product Here

SwitchDoc Labs is pleased to present our latest product, OurWeather Version 2.  OurWeather is a connected weather station containing 10 different sensors to teach STEM kids about electronics, software and theunspecified-8 copy weather.   It contains all the sensors and wires to make a fully functional, WiFi connected weather station.   No software programming is required, it works right out of the box.   However, if you want to change the way OurWeather works, add your own software or do something entirely different, we have the Open Source software available.   And what is one of the coolest features of OurWeather?   Building the kit requires NO SOLDERING.    It is all plug and play based building, with a full step-by-step photograph based instruction manual.  It is a safe and educational way to learn about the weather and STEM topics.

What is the Difference Between the New OurWeather V2 and Previous OurWeather V1 Kits?

We launched the first OurWeather Kit in 2016.   After listening to customer comments and more importantly customer suggestions, a redesign and complete revamp of the OurWeather kit has been made and is now being launched via this Kickstarter.   We simplified construction, produced a new 3D Print base (which is now included in the kit), switched to a MUCH more powerful computer (ESP32 Dual Core!), added an external antenna (the #1 most requested feature), improved the REST interface and added new features.   Same quality parts, and still includes full open source software! so you can modify the project to meet your requirements.   You can upgrade your V1 Kit to V2 of OurWeather by selecting the OurWeather Upgrade Kit Reward on the Kickstarter.

Advanced Usage

OurWeather is designed to be accessable to a wide range of different ages and skill levels.  Out of the box, you can easily see and get weather information from OurWeather by the supplied web page and included OLED display.  Plug it in, and it works.

For those who wish to dig in a little deeper and build software on Raspberry Pis to read information from OurWeather and use it in their own programs, we provide a REST interface.   Simple to use.   Let’s say your OurWeather is located at the address of 192.168.1.134 (OurWeather will tell you what address it is at during startup after you have set it up).  For example:  http://192.168.1.134/OutdoorTemperature  will return:

{“OutdoorTemperature”: 22.10, “id”: “1”, “name”: “OurWeather”, “connected”: true}

Very cool.   Actually, 22.10 is in Celsius so it is a nice temperature.  72F.

All the weather information is available by similar calls.

We provide the source code up on github.com for OurWeather so you can modify it yourself for those who want to dig in even deeper.

Software Updates

OurWeather supports software updates OTA (Over the Air) so you can always go and grab our latest software off of www.SwitchDoc.com by using your OurWeatherAdmin.html web page.   You are never out of date with the latest and greatest!