Category: Open Hardware

April 21, 2022

There has been a flurry of activity on the Debian mailing lists ever since Steve McIntyre raised the issue of including non-free firmware as part of official Debian installation images. Firstly I should point out that I am in complete agreement with Steve’s proposal to include non-free firmware as part of an installation image. Likewise […]

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August 3, 2018

We want to be able to record the temperature of the outside air for our weather station. We can do this using a Thermistor.  This is a resistor that changes resistance relative to its temperature.  Unfortunately we are unable to measure resistance directly, we can however measure a voltage. Consider the circuit below: ____ Vcc […]

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August 3, 2018

This summer’s project we (Isy Simpkins, Alys George, Andy Simpkins) intend to build a weather station. The project can be split into various sections and today we decided the scope of the project. Initially we decided what we want to measure: Temperature Humidity Precipitation Wind speed and direction Light Air pressure We’ve also decided that […]

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