

However, on the downside you will need to source a waterproof case and hack together the supporting scripts. There are plenty of ready-to-assemble outdoor kits out there - such as this from the Pi Hut (opens in new tab) which takes the pain out of constructing your own-brew anemometer.

That might sound a bit counter-intuitive, but essentially outdoor weather stations can measure environmental factors like wind speed and rainfall, while an indoor station will be more geared to measuring pressure changes, temperature and perhaps air quality. There are two different 'routes' here - indoors and outdoors. Raspberry Pi: Top projects to try yourself 16 top BBC micro:bit projects Upton Funk: what’s next for the man behind the Pi?īuilding a weather station is just one of the awesome projects within the grasp of a Raspberry Pi owner, and as with almost every Pi project, there are a variety of different approaches available, depending on how professional you'd like the finished product to be, how much you plan to spend, and of course what specific aspects of weather you'd like to measure.
