Do you wonder how to build a personal weather station with data logging capability? Well, Jesus Echavarria, a electronic engineer and DIY hardware maker from Spain, has shared the details of his design of a very professional-looking, full-featured, and portable weather data recorder that is capable of recording ambient temperature, humidity, and light level into a SD card along with a time stamp.
On the sensor part, the project uses HDC1050 for temperature and humidity measurements, and TEMT6000X01 for ambient light sensing. The time keeping is performed using M41T00SM6 RTC chip with a separate back-up power supplied from a coin-cell battery. Two push buttons and two extra leds used in his design to provide a minimal user interface, and most of the configuration part (like time and date settings) is done through a PC terminal program using a command-line interface.
For more detail: A full-featured, portable weather data recorder
