News - Mission Earth
DIY Weather Station Project Updated
One of the projects that we've developed relates to the engineering curriculum thrust of Mission EARTH. The goal is to foster an integrated framework of GLOBE and engineering throughout the K - 12 + University system. The Boston University Mission EARTH team has partnered with Boston University's Dept of Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Capstone course to encourage the senior Mechanical Engineering students to design instruments that can be assembled by K-12 GLOBE partner schools, for use in gathering data for GLOBE and curriculum and exploring engineering concepts and tools.
We're very excited to share the first such project: a WiFi-enabled/solar powered weather station. This project was designed primarily as an instruction manual that describes all the sensors and components involved, where to buy each component, and how to assemble the station. We're working to add the data output stream to the GLOBE database. The project manual can be downloaded via the link below, and any questions can be directed to Dr. Caleb Farny (farny@bu.edu):