Sounds like a fun project! BTW, I started with Algol 60 and FORTRAN 66.
On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 1:14 AM Macha <[email protected]> wrote: > It’s probably not remembered, but some while ago I posted about a problem > I was having with my (many years old) fousb station. > > Basically, it was reporting ludicrously high rainfall and wind speeds. > These "readings" happening even when the relevant sensors were unplugged. > > So, I concluded that the unit’s electronics were, to use an Engineering > term, buggered. > > Being unwilling to spend money on a new station, I explored the > possibility of making a "homebrew" station and went out and bought a BBC > Micro:bit and a Sparkfun Weather:bit. > > The Sparkfun product comes with software written in Microsoft’s > Typescript. This actually ran too slowly for my purposes, as did > Micropython, so I ended up using C++ with the compiler on mbed.org which > loops round the monitoring tasks needed in about 1mS ( I wanted to avoid > interrupts ). > > I also wrote a (crude) driver for weewx, which pulls loop data off the > Micro:bit, so all in all I’m feeling quite smug! > > My next step is to have a go at writing code, running on the Micro:bit, > which can read the BME280 as currently I’m doing that with the attached RPi. > > I’m old enough btw to be able to say "I can write FORTRAN in any > language", so please don’t ask to see the code! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/278917c8-36a7-4bb1-9fd0-1ea5cc6849d7%40googlegroups.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAPq0zEB68aDCL-NZ%2B41u4b6-veXaKpWwBVJfUS82UiUq4e-_1Q%40mail.gmail.com.
