Weather Icon Display

The weather forecast is updated from the internet and displayed using icons and text on an acrylic plate. Uses an Arduino Yun and 100 LEDs.

Jason Rolfe

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This design is based on the Word Clock style of display, but shows the current conditions and the forecast for tonight and tomorrow. The display shows the highs, lows, chance of precipitation, snow forecast, and a conditions icon. An Arduino Yun accesses the Weather Underground API for the data and a sketch displays the icon based on the forecast. There is a grid of 100 addressable LEDs, built from Adafruit NeoPixels. The faceplate is laser cut acrylic made by Ponoko and I built the wood frame using a colonial style moulding.

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1 × Arduino Yun Pretty standard.
100 × Adafruit NeoPixels I ordered 4 meters to of the 32 LEDs per meter type.
1 × 5V, 3A Power supply
1 × Custom Shadow Box Frame Made using moulding from the hardware store. Stained with wood stain.
1 × Cardboard for the partitions

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Thomas Kremser wrote 06/20/2018 at 09:06

Would you share the Code used?

or lead to any source, where i get a clue how the Weather Information is collected?

Did build myself a Wordclock in several Styles (Stars wars, engl., German,... eg.) and am thinking of a Version for Weather and one for the Date, to put all three on the wall

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spinnaker121 wrote 12/03/2015 at 19:21

Very nice. Would love to see even some of the code that calls Weather Underground. Thanks.

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Jason Rolfe wrote 11/04/2015 at 05:17

Thanks for the skull and the kind words!

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Richard Hogben wrote 11/04/2015 at 05:25

You can add the github link to the project here too. Would be nice to check that out thanks!

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Richard Hogben wrote 11/04/2015 at 05:15

Just saw this on reddit very cool!

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