It's time to build things!

Using a light sensor to turn on a Philips Hue bulb!

The time has come to measure the weather outside with the arduino weather station! I am most interested in measuring the snow height, so I really want to test it out during a snow storm. Here it is! The finalized weather station outside. ...

Here I install the arduino weather station components into a box that will be ready for the outdoors! I seriously lucked out and my granddad made me a weather station box years ago. Now I am actually using it! An ideal enclosure for a weather...

I recently setup Allsky to take images of the night sky with a raspberry pi and a spare wide angle astrophotography lens. The project is described here and the code is here . I was amazed at how well the software worked after installation with...

Now that I have a working indoor Arduino Weather Station, I’m going to add a ultrasonic sensor. The goal of this sensor is to measure snow height in the winter. I am going to use the  US-100 ultrasonic sensor to do this. The idea is that this...

Here I will talk about how to photograph star trails. I did this recently as I was trying to capture the Perseid meteor shower with limited success. Star trails are nice though! I’ll go through the steps I took below. To start make sure you...