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MyForecast

A small gadget that reminds you to bring an umbrella

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This project was created on 04/14/2016 and last updated 9 years ago.

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This gadget pulls the 6 hour weather forecast for your area from OpenWeather, and displays the conditions using an animation.

What started as a single LED that would just tell me if its rainy or snowy, turned into a full-color 8x8 LED matrix that displays an animation based on the 6 hour weather forecast for my zip code from OpenWeather. I'm using an ESP8266 to pull the weather in, and an 8x8 array of WS2812B LEDs to display a few animations I hand-wrote.

I left it at "Completed" but there are still a few animations that have to be written (thunderstorm, heavy wind, etc), but at this point it hangs above my umbrella stand and lets me know if I have to bring an umbrella, so mission accomplished (for now...)

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espMatrixWs2812.sch

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sch - 249.38 kB - 04/14/2016 at 16:17

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davedarko wrote 04/15/2016 at 23:17 • point

I still have a rainbowduino with an RGB matrix, this gives me ideas how to finally make some good use of it :)

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jareklupinski wrote 04/16/2016 at 03:48 • point

Have fun! It's a neat little gadget for teasing interesting visuals out of :)

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