1. By Team 5a:
Richard Benjamin
Andrea Boarman

2. What is Weather Meter 2.0?
 A stationary weathervane that measures
temperature, wind speed and direction,
and precipitation
 All data received from the weathervane
is graphically displayed on a
touchscreen

3. How does it work?
 The weathervane is connected to an mbed
microcontroller via RJ11 breakout
connectors.
 The mbed is responsible for receiving and
transmitting the weather data to the Altera
DE2 development board and also to our
team’s website via Cosm.com (formally
known as Pachube.com).
 The touchscreen is connected to the DE2
where it is able to display the weather data.

4. Decisions, decisions...
Our project took many different
turns before reaching this point.

5. Roadblocks
• The MAVRK and µMAVRK
• DE2 Ethernet capabilities
• Mbed Wi-Fly
• Poor Documentation

6. The road to success... (cont’d)
 Our original product:
 Used a completely different platform for
weather data (The TI MAVRK and µMAVRK,
no mbed)
 Communicated via Ethernet
○ The DE2 communicating via wired Ethernet to
update weather information on cosm.com
 Exhibited an interactive UI on the
touchscreen

7. What we learned...
• How to work with an
unfamiliar platform with
a limited amount of time
• How exactly does a
touchscreen work?
• How to debug other
people’s code

8. Advice to Future ESD3
Students
 Sooner than later is better.
 It’s cool to think BIG when you have a
lot of time.
 Be proactive in asking for assistance

9. Questions?
 Our team’s webpage is:
 http://people.rit.edu/rab5923/esd3