[Weather] Interesting little weather device

[Jim Patek]

Rich:
I bought a couple today as well.  Let me know how the hacking turns out.

Jim

Rich Mulvey wrote:
> Hi All:
>
>    I thought some people may be interested in these little weather 
> devices:  
> http://www.houseofdeals.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=1716 
>
>    They're fairly interesting as they are - they use a pager network to 
> grab a 5-day forecast for your local area.  But for the hardware hackers 
> around here, the *really* interesting part is that you can disassemble 
> them and extract the data radio and weather interface chip.  Full 
> details of how easy it is to interface to it via an RS-232 interface can 
> be found at http://www.ambientdevices.com/datacasting/AMB-4001-W1.pdf - 
> so you can use the guts for your own weather forecast display system.
>
>    And best yet, you can get them for $9.95 each, instead of the $995 
> that Ambient charges for a developer kit.  :-)  Even though the website 
> says that they don't offer individual sales, I had no problem ordering 
> them.  There is a minimum of $25.00, so I bought 3.  I figured I could 
> use one for its intended use, and  then use the remaining two for 
> projects.  :-)
>
>    I'm planning on intergrating one into my Zigbee weather display 
> module, pictured at 
> http://www.mulveyfamily.com/projects/remotedisplay/display.jpg .  I 
> already have it grabbing a weather forecast from the net and displaying 
> it on the bottom line, but adapting one of these units would make it 
> completely stand-alone.
>
> - Rich
>
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