My name is Jesse Morgan . I am a Software Engineer at Amazon.com . I also backpack , sail , ski , and play with radios in the woods.
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My weather station hasn't been working right for awhile. I've got a handful of ESP8266 boards sitting here, so I've decided to repurpose the housing and sensors to build my own direct-to-wifi WX station. Most of the sensors are straightforward: a moving piece with a magnet attached triggers a reed switch to count the movements as pulses (wind speed, rainfall). The temp and humidity sensor is a very common I2C chip (SHT21). The wind direction indicator, however, is fascinating. The wind position indicator is