Build your own weather machine

Les Pounder is normally a ray of sunshine, but is feeling a little under the weather. Perhaps this project will lift the clouds.

YOU’LL NEED • Pi Pico W• I2C LCD• 4x F2F jumper wires• Code: https://github.com/lesp/LXF316/archive/refs/heads/main.zip The Raspberry Pi Pico W excels at being used with online APIs for a myriad of data sources. We’ve used it to read the news, tell us who is on the International Space Station, and now we are building a portable weather station that uses OpenWeather’s API to tell us if we need an umbrella. W is for weather Holding the BOOTSEL button, connect your Pi Pico to your computer. Go to https://bit.ly/XF306Micro Python and download the version of MicroPython for your Pico/Pico W. Open your file manager, go to the downloaded file and copy it to the root of the RPI-RP2 drive. This flashes the new firmware to the Pico. Using your distro’s package manager,…

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