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« on: November 23, 2011, 08:51:10 AM »
The Dream Machine - II will use individual sensors communicating by XBee radios.  The Arduino Uno microcontroller connects to an XBee radio and to the host PC via USB and/or an Internet connection using an Ethernet shield.  Several programmable XBee radios form an outside network to allow flexibility in locating the weather sensors.
The XBee radios cost about $21 each and has a range of 30 meters (1 mile for the $40 pro version).  The radios can have a dual function as repeater for distant radios.
I have the parts for this but will concentrate on the VN1 version first.
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« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2011, 06:23:37 PM »
...sounds interesting.

...maybe a single (updated as new info becomes available) posting of your overall design would be helpful to the curious?
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« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2011, 08:52:18 AM »
Sketch of ideas while reading Arduino and XBee books.  I forgot to include a display console.
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NWS Coop station=LXTG1, Fischer Porter, SRG, MMTS. 
CoCoRaHS=GA-OG-1 manual & electronic ET gauges. CWOP=CW2074. XP with serial port, VWS v14.01p0, laptop with Win7 and USB ports.
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« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2011, 08:54:44 AM »
...nothing like a picture to express a 1,000 words!
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« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2012, 05:36:13 PM »
Curious, what temperature and relative-humidity sensors (singular or combination) are you considering?
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