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After a long time being silent here in LMR I finally got some time to post an update to my weather station project.

On April 2nd a bit after 11:33:22.546588 AM GMT+3 it happened. My weather station's (http://letsmakerobots.com/node/25773) remote unit died. I was having my morning coffee and noticed that weatherlogger hadn't received any updates for last 10 to 15 minutes or so. Last update was at previously mentioned timestamp.

Here's a quick project update: I've been busy with studies, work and other stupid things and I haven't had much time to spend with really important stuff - my weather station project. Now that I finally got more time and spent couple of nights building I got radio silence! Oh ****!

The weather is out there and so the weather station must be out there too. My weather station (or what will someday be a weather station) has now spent last two nights outside on my backyard. The idea is to test how it, and especially its lead acid battery, survives in cold weather.

Believe it or not but this thing right here is a wind vane for my weather station:

"A wind vane"

I've been thinking about making a weather station for a while. My goal is to have it running when I go for a two week trip at the end of the year so I can check how cold it is back here in Finland :-) To put it simply, the idea is this (the usual weather station stuff I think):

Today I made my first SMD soldering. This is where I started:

FT232RL and SSOP28 adapter

And this is what I ended up with:

Done!