My presentation for http://3dcamp.barcamp.ie/ at the University of Limerick on Saturday May 25th 2013

1. How to build your own
personal weather station
Brian O'Donovan - http://brianodonovan.ie

2. Background
Irish Weather varies
-By Day/Hour/Minute
-By Location - Met office weather is not mine

3. Sunday May 12th 9:15am

4. Sunday May 12th 11:30am

5. Cultural Results
When I call my parents in Galway
Conversation starts with:
"what is the weather like where you are?"
We then discuss the weather forecast
We watch weather forecasts closely
we rarely find them useful for us

6. High Tech version of our chat

7. Irish Weather Network - local amateur reports

8. Started christmas 2010
Very Severe Snow
Santa got a strong hint that
Maplin had a special offer
on personal Weather
Stations
My Own Involvement

9. March 2011 Went On-line
Unit came with Windows only SW
Located PYWWS python package which can
connect to Weather Underground or other
Sites
Finally found a use for my Tonido Plug
Balance easy to see v easy to connect

10. Tonido
Plug
Router
Weather
Station
Receiver
Unit

11. My Activities
Analysed accuracy of different forecast
services for unsucessful Young Scientist project
http://bit.ly/vPA5BW
Started Twittering as @LLWeather May 2013
I am not really a weather nerd
Check out the Irish Met Society

12. Where to Find out more
http://www.irishmetsociety.org
http://irelandsweather.com/
http://www.met.ie/education
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/education/
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/edures.shtml
http://www.wunderground.com
https://code.google.com/p/pywws
http://www.maplin.co.uk/gadgets-and-toys/time-weather-and-sca
https://twitter.com/LLWeather/following