LOVE that you built the actual thing by hand using household parts; truly a project in the Pi Day spirit!

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Jeff -- thanks for this! :) Love your channel.

@dylandowdy3687

3 жыл бұрын

@@ExplainingComputers I enjoy watching both Jeff and explaining pc channels . You guys are awesome!

@bc-kelley

3 жыл бұрын

Love seeing creators in the comments of other channels! Jeff always seems like a stand up guy.

@mikehensley78

3 жыл бұрын

Happy pi day everyone

@TheTechieScientist

3 жыл бұрын

@@ExplainingComputers wow , two of the best Pi creators in one comment , what more could a pi liver ask??

My wife happen into my office at the end of the segment as Chris was musing about building a monitor for his greenhouse…now, she expects me to watch every Sunday and get the information to build a monitoring station for her greenhouse. Great!

This is the reason why I love Sundays.

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

:)

Finally a nerd in KZread, who can made some thing useful and applicable rather than just showing off.. Bravo 👏👏👏

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! 😃

No 3d printed parts. YOU ARE MY HERO!

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

:)

Seriously, you MUST be telepathic. Been looking at weather stations.

👍🙂 to further the anemometer build, the addition of direction indication, use of an array of reflectance sensor against a disc with BCD encoding for the direction... thanks for the great information. Much easier than a synchro transmitter. Hmmmmm....

I just love the way you designed this project, everything but the sticky backed plastic and the loo roll holders.

I've always had a desire to build a greenhouse. Now that I'm retired I'm going to finally get to do it. I look forward to seeing your projects in yours.

3d printing has really changed my brain. Now, even if something else is faster, 3d printing is such a hammer in my tool box that it just feels too easy to always go that route. Everything is a nail to 3d printing. In this case, it even looks like he probably made it faster than designing then printing would have taken him, yet I still found myself thinking "oou, I could 3d print that!"

Wow, You are a Great IT Engineer

Great weekend project Chris. I build something similar to your design a few years ago but I used reed switch and magnet for my sensor. I’m now working with my grandkids on different projects, they love your videos. Take care & we will see you next weekend.

OMG I have the same comput cleaner thingy.. ive order it and wanted the pro one (the black one) and got the white one like you have.. but ive contacted them.. they have notice their mistake and sent me the black one charge free.. very respectful way of doing business.. even if they lose $ they made things right after making a mistake that something i dont see many companies do thous days.

The green house project is something I want to do! Hope to see yours!

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

I had a solenoid valve arrive two days ago . . .

@firepowerg

3 жыл бұрын

Use it to grow raspberries.

Brilliant project Chris! I've had a personal weather station online since 2007, and I find it a very fun hobby!

Brilliant Chris! Once again, a great example of real world applied computing. Fascinated to see what you are going to develop for your greenhouse 😁

This is a wonderful way to celebrate PI Day. I'm looking forward to greenhouse monitoring. Hopefully RPI Pico gets something to do too. 😊

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. :) I have been shooting a Raspberry Pi Pico video . . . will post here fairly soon.

Only thing missing was double sided sticky tape. Otherwise, it was like watching something from my 70's childhood. Fair brings a tear to the old, tired eyes. Had great time saying t***s at 4:24. Made my Sunday.

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

:)

Brilliant. I'm late to the show here, but as a fan of KZreadr Robert Murray Smith, I'd have to recommend improving the design by using skater bearings on the biro axle!

What an excellent 'build your own' project.

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

Most excellent! Stanley was happy to be of service.

A nice addon to the weather sensor to PI. Looking forward to more.

So inspiring! Can't wait to see the rain meter now 🌧️

Thanks for the wonderful Pi Day video. Keep up the around the house Pi projects. Very practical and yet very educational application of Pi technology. Cheers and stay well!

Oh Chris, these videos are absolutely brilliant. I can't wait to start fiddling about with my Pi (holidays pending..) So much inspiration radiating from your good work here. *seven thumbs up*

Fascinating results! Time and hard work pays off once again. You have my congratulations and admiration. Looking forward to your next video.

Another great project video, thanks!. Also I note the use the word "biro" for ballpoint pen; the US and UK are separated by a common language.

Wishing everyone a Happy PI Day!!!

@traviseddy6447

3 жыл бұрын

Hi friend

Very great simple build and thanks for all the explanations

a really interesting video from our favourite YouYube channel

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

:)

Thanks. Reminds me of building a Heath Kit with my friend such a long time ago.

the latest 3d printers got nothing on Stanley the Knife ! love the video Mr. Barnatt Thank you

You actually did it! Nice job Christopher!

I've just finished a similar project, using the "Inspeed" 8-pulse anemometer and Rasberry Pi Zero W. I used "wiringpi" library for interrupt handing and "curl" library to send the results to my weather server.

Using Pi to calculate airspeed on a Pi. And on Pi Day, no less!! I have a feeling you planned this... ;-)

Another great true home project. If you ever get the time in your schedule, I'd love to have a home streaming Raspberry Pi device. I built the Pi NAS with OMV 5 and a 2TB SSD and I'd like to convert it to a streaming device, preferably with safe port forwarding so I can access it when babysitting away from home. Have fun!

Well Chris, what can I say? Talk about creating value through craft, electronics and code writing skills, not to mention video production. Very good indeed and a tremendous help to those You-tubers interested. Liked.

Outstanding Chris. I love Pi projects.

My current pi project is an automated greenhouse with web interface. Cant wait to see what you do

Thanks again Chris for a wonderful enlightening video. You cobble things together faster than Wallace and Grommit! I gave my young niece my old RPI3 and she was immediately enthralled with it, just like I was in my bygone days with the Timex-Sinclair. In fact I even challenged her to follow your build and she is now asking how she can make a "waterproof bearing " for the rotor.......If she comes up with a good idea, I promised to get her the RPI400. It is so refreshing to see her off the social media and using the creativity you have inspired it her!!! she will soon be explaining all your videos to me in "laymans layman" terms I am sure :)

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

This is all great to hear -- and what both KZread and the Raspberry Pi should be all about! I wish your niece well in her endeavours. :)

Nice useful project, it brings back my memories to an old project on MSX1 using a photoresistor connected to the joystick port Thanks

Mr Barnatt, I get just a tad smarter every Sunday because of you.

Indeed I enjoyed it ! Looking forward to see more sensor projects !

With online retailers serving the world we don't usually build things with our own hands so much like we once did. So cool project 👍

I just buy my first Pi and yours videos are so good.

Great addition, nice one Christopher. It was your original video featuring the BME280 that inspired me to make my own monitoring network. I have 3 Pi Zero monitoring setups (garage, office and garden) that use BME280 and VEML7700 sensors with the internal setups coupled with an SSD1306 OLED. All stations cache locally to a database and then sync to a master database on which Grafana is used for visual output/graphing. I'm in the process of adding a touch screen to my lighting system on which this information is received via MQTT messaging. I'm soon to add a rain sensor to my setup - but this too would be great addition. Your videos are so inspiring - keep up the great work!

I'm really enjoying these building projects and learning how to make use of something i've been curious about for a long time but could never realy get myself to a point where i could start. Thanks for teaching us!

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Great to hear!

Very nice wind speed sensor that must be the fastest pen in the universe and thank you for explaining the code it's always nice to have code explained for people like me that find it hard to understand code I would have thought cutting the balls in half was the hardest part?

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

The ball cutting was easier than I imagined it would be -- achieved with nail scissors.

Very instructional. I need to get up to speed on Pi and Python. Doing mostly Arduino for the past years. Automation in plant growing has always been an interest. Looking forward to more.

Thank you so much! I asked you for this on the first video. I have always wanted to build my own weather station!

Looking forward to your greenhouse projects.

Jeez an' all I do when going out... just wet my index finger and hold it up. While not precise, surprisingly accurate for me... overall love this and other projects! All I'm really looking for, is a how-to on a pair of security cameras.

Sunday afternoon and I've just finished some C programming tutorials (getting a little bored) and this little gem pops up on my subscribed list. This really grabbed my attention the simplicity of the build and the great presentation of the video make this a project I will be doing soon. Thanks Chris.

@traviseddy6447

3 жыл бұрын

Hi friend

Another wonderful video with Raspberry Pi and the magic of film-making :)

Excellent project - especially for lockdown!

Excelente vídeo and a fantastic project... Wish you well and stay safe

You did it again, another amazing video that is not only fun but educational as well.

Thank you for this video. I like your teaching method and follow your code "flow" logic. I'm looking forward to this project and excited to "play with code" again. I will be sure to check out your other videos as well. Good job!

Great stuff - good luck with the greenhouse, you've got your work cut out there. Loving your videos and I hope to view one verrrrry soon

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

Am i the only one who couldn't care less about the content of the video, but nevertheless finds himself watching due to how relaxing Christopher's presentation skills are?

Absolutely love these videos. Thank you, Chris 👍

This is great. It’s just pure genius and simplicity rolled into one. I like the idea of the phone cable. Perhaps you could wire up sockets on the Pi and just plug the none sensor end in to that to keep it tidy/plug and play sorta thing?

Cheers to Explaining Computers for another great pi tutorial. Excellent work in design. Anemometers can be quite expensive.

This a very cool project. This something I might do for my wife who always giving an update on the weather conditions. I think a two useful additions would be a GUI interface and an internet feed of from the weather service. I need finish a up a project using the raspberry pi pico for a friend of mine.

Thanks Chris it's very interesting and useful proyect.

You are incredibly clever! Thank you for that awesome video!

I would love to see a Raspberry Pi cultivation system.

@ahuman6825

3 жыл бұрын

Or weed!

Inspiring project! Eager to try it out on my Raspberry Pi. Hello from Mauritius.

Great video again. Cant wait to see your technologically advanced greenhouse.

Great video. Can't wait to see what you do next!

Great video. I like it when something useful is created from odds and ends. I would like to see this project running on a Pico. Low power and could be battery operated. Great idea. Something to build with this kids.

Very cool project.and thanks again for another contribution to the education.

The timing of the video couldn't be better. I was considering upgrading my smart home with a diy wind speed sensor. Thanks!

Wow - I was just searching for 'anemometer, raspberry pi' in google and you posted this 7 hrs ago! 😎 My project is AI controlled drones so wind speed along the circuit is a handy feature!

Excellent stuff. Thanks for sharing. You may want to build a Nodered dashboard. It is preinstalled on the pi and easypeasy to configure. Also some weather services such as the DWD offer nodes where you can compare and finetune your DIY measurements. Keep on the excellent work. Highly appreciated.

thanks you so much. you save our project. we were stuck since 2 week

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help.

An excellent video! I love the home-made feel of the project and the weather code tutorial really helped too! As always, thanks!

Thank you for this one. I'm looking forward to the sonic anemometer :)

Very enjoyable Chris. Look forward to the greenhouse projects. :-)

Happy Pi Day! Shame that there's not a new Pi but I shouldn't have expected one until next year.

Yay favourite time of the week again

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Greetings Stephen. :)

Looking forward to the class house projects!

Love your projects! Keep up the good work!

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Will do!

Hey Chris. Love the video, love that you are getting into Weather Data on the raspberry Pi!.

Excellent!!! But the animated anemometer is spinning backwards 3:40 🤣

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

I know, I've just realized. I am kicking myself. I spent so long on this video, and such a basic mistake! But this is the problem with a weekly schedule -- everything is done so quickly . . .

@peterbrown6224

3 жыл бұрын

@AstroCat We gave you Imperial measurements, and this is the thanks we get ;-)

@alliejr

3 жыл бұрын

@@ExplainingComputers Brilliant project and video. It’s all good and all part of the charm! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@johnweller5491

3 жыл бұрын

@AstroCat Not from choice! It was forced on us by the government. :-)

@3ATGL

3 жыл бұрын

Or maybe it is experiencing negative wind ? ;^)

I love the new animations Chris!

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

This was brilliant!! Well done, Sir!

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly!

I hooked up a Temp and Humidity sensor to my Pi and can view a graph of the data in a webpage. Took me months to get it working !

@klaxoncow

3 жыл бұрын

Ah, but a good thing with coding is that you'll find that if you tried to do it again, then you'd get it all done way faster. Donald Knuth - the god of programmers, who we always quote - has it that all good code gets written multiple times. The first time is totally about learning. Working out what the hell you're even doing. Then the second time, you have the understanding to code it well. And then the third time is where you start getting clever - optimising it - so it's now not just "code that works", but "good solid code that really works exceedingly well". Bill Gates was also known to have a similar rule: "third time's the charm". The notion that all software is just a bit crap until its third version. Because it just takes that long for the coders to finally, properly, understand what they're doing. (Indeed, I've always wondered if the fact that Valve software can, famously, never count to three - Half-life, Half-life 2 but no Half-life 3; Portal, Portal 2 but no Portal 3 and so on - is due to the fact that Gabe Newell used to work for Microsoft, before he started Valve, and this is his way of sending a message to his old boss, Bill, that he fundamentally disagrees.)

This is so cool, I need something like this for the marina I work at.. thanks..

Fun project to do and very well explained!

Hi, a very usefull project, I'll try to make it. Thanks

Simply brilliant! I love this channel oh so much.

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you!

Great project Chris!

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

And here is me putting together a weather, river, and footfall sensor dash :) Really like the use of sensors and IoT especially when within the context of learning and community driven data.

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

:)

fun project to do with kids! thanks a lot

Thanks for this. I have a weather station that used a now defunct web server for interpreting the sensor data, so the thing is useless as is. I will attempt to modify it, using your ideas together with the existing sensors (wind, precip., humidity and pressure). It should be a fun project, and may restore the equipment to functionality.

Thanks so much for sharing your code, with the clues in your video, I finally have the code on my 8266 board working like yours.

Excellent. I would never have considered using a Biro as a spindle, such a great idea. Keep up the good work Chris.

Wonderful as always!

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Thank you! I have been thinking of doing this on my suv!