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| Weather Toys: Building and Hacking Your Own 1-Wire Weather Station (ExtremeTech) | 
| Author: Tim Bitson
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
List Price: $29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (5 reviews)
Sales Rank: 67146
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 504
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0470040467
Dewey Decimal Number: 551.5028
EAN: 9780470040461
ASIN: 0470040467
Publication Date: October 16, 2006
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Product Description
Do more than TALK about the weather
Maybe you can't change it, but you can measure it. And onceyou build your weather station, the sky's the limit. You can shareupdates on your own weather Web site. Create a smart sprinklerfor a lot less than thatfancy system on TV. Freeup your PC with a stand-alone weather station.Protect against lightning strikes with a surgesuppressor. Take yourweather station with you. Finding out which waythe wind is blowing canbe a lot of fun.
The Toys
* 1-Wire weather station
* Sensors for humidity, wind, rainfall, barometric pressure, lightning, and temperature
* Weather Web server
* Lightning surge suppressor
* LED weather display
* Smart sprinkler timer
* Appliance controller
* Smart home thermostat
* Stand-alone weather station
Complete instructions and code for these andother hardware and software projects--build them all or pick and choose!
Companion Web site
At www.weathertoys.net you'll find a complete weather station software package, source code, and specialized software tools to support these projects, plus lots of additional resources.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good intro to one wire and how it works December 21, 2008
I bought this book for a bargain price from one of the sellers on amazon. It has good information about how one wire sensors work. Also if someone is interested in Java this will break you into getting a sense of how that works. But there are some corrections that were made after the book was published, especially concerning how to list the onewire usb adapter. I had some problems getting it to work until I looked up the authors website and read some of the comments.
All in all, I probably would not buy a one wire weather station again because there are other weather stations that give you a lot more features for the price. But I would get the very inexpensive one wire temp sensors to play with as an introduction to such devices.
I did learn quite a bit from the book and am glad I understand what it takes to do java programming even though I barely scratched the surface.
 Expand 1 Wire and Weather Device Knowledge May 15, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is an excellent primer to help you understand 1 wire devices and weather devices. I found that it helped motivate me in other directions such as bee hive monitoring in conjunction with the weather. The programs are good but it would be nice if they were available in alternate programming langauges such as C, C++, Visual Basic and a few others. I am not well versed in Java at this time so the alternate programming language would help greatly especially since I am in the process of doing remote wireless using the Rabbit microprocessor with ZigBee for the weather devices and the alternate languages would help the process. If you have a need to know about 1 wire and weather devices this book is highly recommended...
Dynamite and full of good projects April 5, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The introduction to the Java programming environment is well worth the price of admission. This is for folks who want to build a real proefessional grade weather station and not just a toy demon.
Lots of Information January 30, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am not fond of Java. The book would have been of more use to me had the code examples been in VB or C#. The other problem I found with the software is that it was hard to locate. I had to dig around on the web to find a good link to the software files. I also had problems getting all the bits and pieces installed to get even one of the examples to run.
That all aside there is a lot of good information available in the book if you are building your own weather station.
I found the formulas that the auther used invaluable.
Awesome! January 27, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A great book - very informative. Tim Bitson takes you step-by-step in both the software and hardware projects so that even the beginner can complete them.
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