We can’t wait to buy one of these for our family. Such a fun project.

The last paragraph answered my question (that is, a commercially available version is planned), but another poit to note (for me, anyway), Bob is (or was, dead now) my uncle.

I am a teacher working in one of the 1000 selected schools and willing to start working with the kit as soon as possible.

Thanks in advance.

Ismail Ali Gago
IES Cervantes
http://ies.cervantes.madrid.educa.madrid.org/indexIn.htm
Madrid – Spain

Any hope of the documentation, PCB layouts etc? They must be pretty finalised by now. Surely just a matter of putting them in a known download location?

Hi,

is there any chance to buy the weather station as a family project or is it only for schools. I would like to have one to set it up with my son.

Please let me know

Any idea what price these might sell for to the general public ? Will the waterproof cases be available ?

(also – major fail with the Ikea-style cartoon instructions – please don’t go that way. Please.)

Step 2: You plug the board into …
… itself (???)

I build a little temperature recording station with a Raspberry Pi. It records the temperatures in my apartment and also takes care of the visualization:

http://pi.tafkas.net/temperatures/

Typo: “allow schools to share data their data”

One too many data ;-)

(yes, I’ve been absent for a while. my (very) old browser decided it didn’t like the blog engine anymore and crashed every time. New OS and browser fixed that)

Is there any chance that it could be expanded to include recording solar radiation and UV index?

I, like many others, would love to purchase one of these for private use. Perhaps there’s a funding opportunity here; for every station sole (at double the cost) one station is given to a school on the waiting list.

Once schools start collecting all this data and passing it to Oracle, will the general public be able to access it? As the number of participants grows, it would be a valuable resource for weather analysis to amateurs.

(test).

I definitely want to control the weather with my Raspberry Pi. Especially if I can have localised thunderclouds.

Looks like is has a Power Over Ethernet kit?

Any details on the parts?

Does this use weewx software for the engine? Looks awesome. Need to incorporate a webcam too so that it can upload data to various online sites.

I just came across this project for the first time and all I can think is wow!

As a homeschool father of three and part of a very large homeschool community, my wife and I would love to get our hands on this kit. What an awesome resource to share not just our household but the many associations we have.. Boy Scouts, homeschool co-ops, church, etc. etc.

I hope these units become available before too long for those outside the original launch. Congratulations on the impending launch.

Will this data also be passed on the APRS (www.aprs.org/aprs.net/aprs.fi) infrastructure as Civilian Weather Observations (CWOP) (wxqa.com)? If not, will the software be configurable to allow it to do so? There is already a robust infrastructure out there and no sense in re-inventing the wheel!

Jack

Can’t wait till I can buy one and put it together with my nieces

Estamos aguardando ansiosos aqui no Brasil.

We are also one of the lucky thousand schools. We have a fledgling maker community starting up at our school masterminded by one of our talented year 9 students.
They have just rebuilt a computer network for CS lessons, over 3 rooms using pis and donated old desktop computers.
I cant wait to put this into their hands as well and get them to start a blog about it.

You have my sympathy, Clive. I used to work on radar aerials: water is your enemy.

I’d like to build my own weather station. It would be useful to know what sensors you’ve chosen. Could you release further technical details?

Just wanted to add my voice to the ones who are looking forward to buy this kit. It looks awesome, and judging from the responses here, will have great community support as well.

Looking forward to have a significant network of new Civilian Weather Observations with it.

I guess you guys know what you’re doing, but all the other weather stations I know of have the console inside and only the sensors outside, with wifi comms between them. That avoids having to weatherproof the delicate stuff. Why did you decide to put the RPi outside?

As one of the 1000 schools, our HOD is very excited about this because I never told him I was putting the school forward. He runs a computer programming/coding club after school and was looking for something to focus on so that the Students can see the practical side of programming in modular format. :-)

I am also a teacher expecting to work as one of the 1000 selected schools.I still waiting to receive the kit and to join the project. ( & wishing to start working with the kit as soon as possible —do you know sth about the kid?) .

Thanks in advance
A School from Greece
2 gymnasium charilaou

We want also to join you in a forum (with a title : a weather station for schools).

We at Hanoi International School would love to be a part of this. Please let us know when you can ship to Vietnam.

Thanks

Has the email gone out with the link for confirming shipping address? I haven’t received it.

Missed the deadline for registering as well. Spoke to my kid’s science teacher and he’s very interested. At the very least, can we have units for purchase? I know some schools / kids / parents would love to take part in this, kind of like the FLL (First Lego League) where each team is expected to pay for the parts.

Hello Clive,

realy waiting for news since last week, can you tell us when documentation is ready and the box will be shipped?

Thanks, Ruud

I too would love to purchase one of these kits for use at work.
We are in the process of building an agricultural centre of excellence for research, development and educational use and this would be perfect along with many other pi based projects I’m proposing.

Have the Raspberry Pi Weather Stations been Shipped?

Watauga High School
Boone, North Carolina

Any more news on being able to buy one of these kits? I think the buy one donate one to a school model seems to be popular and would suit me too.

magic monday, according latest email update :)

Is there any update when this will be released to the wider community? My little station has failed and I am looking at a new one.

Of course, if the Pi is available, then that is the top of the list.

I’m sure there’s huge potential demansd for a wider release. I’ve had a weather station going for years and keep my eyes peeled for something better and I’m pretty confident there’s nothing as good as this kit unless you spend a <<>> of money.
So can I add my vote for two stations – one for myself personally and one to set up with the breakfast club at my son’s school.

Hi Clive,

My students ask me weekly news … Could you try to give us news ? Some of them leave our school at the end of the year and they would like to add them to the building before leaving.

Hi,

Just got mine. Congratulation for the amazing work worth waiting a year !

A frog and an umbrella in a big wonderful box. I just need to get the water bowl and a ladder :-) :-) :-)

thanks again.

The year is almost over (9 weeks) for us. I guess we will be using it next year for computer classes. If I can buy three more …

Cheers,
Philippe

I’m guessing that our school wasn’t selected. Maybe we can look at the product again when it is commercially available. Are the 1000 schools posted on an interactive map? My students are interested in global distribution of kits and seeing the big weather data picture as it develops.

Scott
PdP, Haiti