A Weather Station with Arduino
KL University Hyderabad
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With an aim to provide accurate weather information three B.Tech, second-year CSE students from KLH Hyderabad campus named Linga Sai Naresh Chowdary, Beeram Akash Murthy, and Gundluru Rasheed under the guidance of Dr. Prashanth, Professor, KLH Hyderabad campus have been working on a project to make a weather station.
This weather station uses a special board called Arduino and a sensor module called BME280. The BME280 sensor measures three things: barometric pressure, temperature, and humidity. Since the pressure changes with altitude, you can also estimate altitude. The Arduino reads temperature, humidity & pressure values from the BME280 sensor and prints them (respectively in °C & RH% & hPa) on the ST7735 colorful TFT display.
The goal of their project is to create a weather station that's simple and easy to use and which provides up-to-date information about the weather. By following guides such as those found on Random Nerd Tutorials or Simple Projects, users can learn how to wire the sensor, install the required libraries, and make a simple sketch to display the sensor readings. Right now, the project is in the prototype stage.