Weather and Climate Observation Platforms
We offer several remote sensing weather observation platforms. From the Destination Weather Station, to BatSat we have you covered for an exiting hands on STEM experience.
Destination Weather Station R1 (retired)
Born out of the necessity to offer our programs remotely the Destination Weather Station offered students the opportunity to learn about remote sensing hands on and learn how to program in the Arduino environment. This kit runs on an Arduino Nano and includes a BME280 weather sensor which measures temperature, pressure, and humidity, and UV sensor, a photoresistor, and a microSD card module to store the data on for review in Excel or other spreadsheet software.
Destination Weather Station R2
Destination Weather station version 2 is a revised version of the original. the version 2 cuts back on the number of sensors, and focuses on the user experience. We have added an OLED for easy viewing of data in real time. And finally we have added the feature of programming the weather station with pre-compiled scripts using the wonderful Adafruit UF2 bootloader for the SAMD21 microcontroller. This has allowed us to expand on who can learn using this platform, adding support for our Chromebook wielding students!
Destination Weather Station R3
Destination Weather Station version 3 will share similar features to both versions 1 and 2. This new platform will run on the same Seeeduino XIAO microcontroller and has a BME280 weather sensor that measures temperature, pressure, and humidity, and a photoresistor. In addition this platform is WiFi ready where students can add an ESP8266 module to connect their weather station the the ever growing network on Weather Underground!