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Sometimes you just wake up and look out the window and it looks like skull and crossbone weather! That must be the symbol for nuclear war.
I used a fake antique (replica) that I picked up for cheep on ebay. I took out the clock work, and replaced it with a servo and used a phidgets USB - servo controller so I could control the servo from my computer. I had to use some gears so that the needle shaft would turn 360 degrees, since the servo only turns about 180. I also re-designed the face of the clock keeping a similar look to the original time piece. Once that was all set I created a little flash application that would connect to yahoo! weather service, and update the servo. I made it so it could toggle between current condition and the local forecast, and also made it so I could enter another zip code to see what the weather is in other places. Their weather service reports something like 40 different conditions, so I had to condense some of them, I combined some things, and ended up with 14 'conditions.' [via] - Link
Update: originally posted to Make: earlier this year! Original link and more photos.
This is the best thing I have seen in quite a while. Something really useful and clever. Where can we find more detailed instructions? This is worthy of a magazine article, since it looks fairly simple to cobble together. I, for one, would like to see much more about this one..
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I second the previous commenters suggestion about making this a full fledged article. Has all the aspects of a perfect make!
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Hey, this is pete, Thanks for your comments! I wanted to point out that this was first posted on Make back in May 2006, here's the link... some more comments there.
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/05/antique_weather_clock.html
and more photos on my website here:
http://www.thisispete.com/weatherclock.html
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can you share the code you used for the controller? or the app you wrote?
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i always wondered if the christian television stations had special weather reporters on standby just incase an armageddon occured. i mean come on, do you really think the regular weather anchors are prepared to forcast these kinds of things?
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http://www.shopgoodwill.com/viewItem.asp?ItemID=2468085
This one has two dials !
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