Author Archives: Richard Hayler

Build your own weather station with our new guide!

One of the most common enquiries I receive at Pi Towers is “How can I get my hands on a Raspberry Pi Oracle Weather Station?” Now the answer is: “Why not build your own version using our guide?” Tadaaaa! The BYO weather station fully assembled.

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Build your own weather station with our new guide!

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2017 Weather Station round-up

As we head into 2018 and start looking forward to longer days in the Northern hemisphere, I thought I’d take a look back at last year’s weather using data from Raspberry Pi Oracle Weather Stations . One of the great things about the kit is that as well as uploading all its readings to the shared online Oracle database, it stores them locally on the Pi in a MySQL or MariaDB database.

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2017 Weather Station round-up

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Visualising Weather Station data with Initial State

Since we launched the Oracle Weather Station project , we’ve collected more than six million records from our network of stations at schools and colleges around the world.

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Visualising Weather Station data with Initial State

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The Weather Station and the eclipse

As everyone knows, one of the problems with the weather is that it can be difficult to predict a long time in advance. In the UK we’ve had stormy conditions for weeks but, of course, now that I’ve finished my lightning detector, everything has calmed down.

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The Weather Station and the eclipse

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