Re: "Weather station" project on //e

[hydros_by_hall@csi.com (Richard A. Hall)]

Hi John,
I did precisely that a few years ago. I used an Applied Engineering A/D D/A
card with various sensors. It monitored wind speed, inside and outside
temperatures, controlled the furnace and kept track of high and low
temperatures. It also kept track of the furnace run time. Somewhere I have the
program. I wrote it in Applesoft Basic.
It displayed data using bar graphs on the 80 column screen.
What little documentation there is, is in rem statements. If you want to look
at the code I'll find the program for you.
Dick..

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 23:58:26 GMT, john@klatch.demon.co.uk (John Le Febvre)
wrote:

>Hello folks.
>
>I am interested in creating a sort of "weather station" on an Apple
>//e I have lying around.  The sort of thing I envisage is a data
>collection system to monitor wind speed/direction, rainfall,
>temperature, humidity etc etc.
>
>I was wondering if any such projects have been attempted before with
>an Apple II (I am quite sure they have!) and if there is any
>documentation anywhere which I could have a look at.  I have a box of
>old cards for the Apple II series including serial, parallel, and
>RS432 type cards.  I am not averse to soldering/construction etc
>coming from an electronics/computing background.
>
>Emails appreciated, thanks.

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