Assembling and testing the weather station
We recommend following an excellent guide from SparkFun to assemble the kit. You can refer to the guide here: https://bit.ly/3yTgZZu. We assembled our kit and tried setting it up in our backyard, as shown in the following figure. We made use of a Pico and a weather carrier board for our installation. This is just for the sake of convenience to avoid some messy wires outdoors:
Figure 5.18 – A weather station installation in the backyard
We tested our weather station without the following considerations:
- A power source for the weather station
- Assembly of the carrier board onto the weather station
- Weather-proofing the carrier board inside an enclosure
- Sturdy installation of the weather station
It is going to take some extensive testing to identify and fix all the problems. The first step is to fix any problems associated with sensor interfacing. Then, we need to ensure that any enclosure...
