Weather Station Electronics kit

Name: Weather Station Electronics kit
Brand: The Science Hut
SKU: 1005006302723825-diy kits
Price: 27.95 USD
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This WiFi-enabled Weather Station STEM Kit is the perfect blend of functionality and DIY Electronics excitement. It has everything you need to assemble your very own digital weather station equipped with a range of features that make it an indispensable addition to your daily life. It's an excellent electronics project for intermediate to advanced level electronics enthusiasts looking for a challenge. The kit includes advanced electronics components such as an HD OLED screen, a WiFi module, and a printed circuit board (PCB).

The finished device makes a great office or desktop feature which connects to your WiFi and displays up-to-date information on its HD OLED screen including the time, date, current weather, and 3 day weather forecast for any major location in the world where data is available online.

Read "Further Product Information" below to find out more about it's key features.

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Kit contents

ESP-015 Wi-Fi module (802.11 bgn)
0.96" OLED display module
Printed circuit board (PCB)
AMS1117-3.3V voltage regulator chip
10 µF capacitor (x2)
Horizontal tactile switch
SMD Micro-USB socket
Connecting pins
USB cable
Clear acrylic case
Assembly fixtures

Note: displays time in 24 hour format and temperature in ºC.

Key Features

Versatile Display: seamlessly switch between three interfaces showcasing real-time information such as time, temperature, humidity, date, day of the week, and weather forecasts. Stay informed at a glance!

High-Definition OLED Display: enjoy a bright and clear viewing experience with the equipped OLED high-definition display screen. The crisp blue font ensures readability, making the information easily accessible.

WiFi Connectivity: stay up-to-date with the world of weather using the WiFi timing module. Support for 2.4G WIFI networking ensures real-time updates, keeping you in the know.

User-Friendly Setup: the inclusion of a setup button allows you to connect to WiFi anytime and anywhere, facilitating hassle-free city location setting. Enjoy the convenience of customization at your fingertips.

Charming Design: embrace the combination of functionality and aesthetics. The clear casing allows you to admire the internal components that make it work while the clock's lovely shape, mini size, and lightweight build make it perfect for DIY electronics assembly enthusiasts. Take your passion for assembly on the go!

Age: 12+

Difficulty: Intermediate

Time to assemble: 2-4 hours

Young children require adult supervision when soldering

Scientific principles illustrated

This WiFi-enabled Weather Station STEM Electronics Kit provides a hands-on learning experience in several scientific and technical areas. Here are some of the skills and knowledge that can be gained from assembling and working with this kit...

Electronics Assembly

The kit involves the assembly of various electronic components, including printed circuit boards (PCBs), a display module, a voltage regulator chip, capacitors, a flick switch, and an ESP8266 WiFi module. Some of these components are a step above the more basic electronic components, such as resistors and transistors. These help to broaden perspectives on the range of components that are available to the electronic engineer. The inclusion of pre-built modules, such as the WiFi module, increases awareness that many electronics functions can be built into a device quickly with readily-available mini-circuits. This knowledge can assist aspiring electronic device inventors in expanding their ideas, encouraging them to think about how this myriad of components can be pieced together to achieve a desired effect.

Soldering Skills

Develop intricate soldering skills, which are crucial for electronics repair and prototyping your own electronics inventions or creations. This kit includes through-hole components and integrated circuits (IC's) which lay the foundation for moving onto more advanced electronics projects. It also requires some surface mount device (SMD) soldering, which adds to the challenge.

Circuit Design and Understanding

Working with multiple PCBs and integrated circuits provides an opportunity to understand circuit design and how different components interact to create a functional device. Users will get to see how a vast amount of electronics technology can be condensed into miniature components that are smaller than a fingernail.

IoT (Internet of Things)

The ESP-015 WiFi module and the ability to connect to the internet make this kit a practical introduction to basic Internet of Things (IoT) concepts. Users will learn how to configure the device to fetch and display real-time weather data from the internet.

Troubleshooting and Problem-Solving

Assembling and programming the weather station may involve overcoming challenges, fostering troubleshooting and problem-solving skills. Diagnosing circuit problems is one of the core skills of an electronics enthusiast. It can be extremely satisfying for an aspiring electronic engineer when they identify and resolve an issue that is preventing a device from functioning properly.

Data Display and User Interface Design

Designing and switching between different interfaces on the OLED display involves understanding user interface design principles and programming the display to showcase relevant information.

WiFi Networking Concepts

The inclusion of the WiFi module introduces users to basic concepts of WiFi networking, including connectivity setup and real-time data updates.

Aesthetics and Design

The clear acrylic case and the design considerations in making the device visually appealing introduce concepts related to aesthetics and design in electronics.

Overall, this STEM electronics kit provides a comprehensive learning and skills-development experience, touching on various STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) disciplines and facilitating the development of a deeper understanding of electronics concepts.

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Not packaged in a giftable form...

We received the product, it is yet to be fully built but looks good and was a well received gift, my only feedback would be that it is not presented well, it doesn't even have it's own box, just the cardboard box it was sent in, the two small zip loc bags with the components and instructions in chinese, so it wasn't very presentable as a gift.

Hello Sarah. Thank you for taking the time to leave a review, we really appreciate it and accept your feedback in relation to the packaging. Like most electronics kits, this kit is shipped in minimal packaging that’s sufficient to protect the components during transit. Adding a presentation box would unfortunately raise both the product and shipping costs considerably. For example, the Weather Station kit you purchased at £18.00 (after your 10% discount) would increase by approximately £2.60 for the box alone. Additionally, it would need then to ship as a parcel rather than a packet, which would add around £5 in shipping fees. Altogether, that would bring the total to about £27.60 — a significant increase (>40%) that most customers wouldn't expect or accept, especially for the addition of a box is typically just discarded. We are looking into the possibility of offering kits gift-boxed for those who wish to pay the extra for it. With respect to the instructions, we have highly-detailed English Instruction Manuals for all kits that can be downloaded directly from our website at the link below (passwords were emailed to you after your order was processed) and we offer free after-sales technical support should the person assembling the kit run into issues and need some help. Link to manuals: https://thesciencehut.com/pages/electronics-kit-instruction-manuals

Not working

Don’t waste your money
This was bought for me as a gift
I followed the instructions to the letter
I am by no means a novice at soldering when I contacted the seller I was told there could not be anything wrong with the product it must be the way I put it together.

Hello Alan, to adress your first claim that the kit doesn't work, there are many, many thousands of other customers who have bought this kit and it works just fine—you can see that from many other reviews on this page. Any time a customer reaches out to us saying they have some issue, we can almost always provide them with technical support to help them get it working. We extended this very same offer of free technical support to you, but within minutes of sending us the photographs we requested, you just went ahead and put up this review without waiting for a response. It is a technically challenging kit, so even if you are experienced as you claim, things can still go wrong. That said, our technical team have reviewed the photographs that you sent by email and your soldering at many points is absolutely the reason why your kit isn't working. Our technical team have annotated your photos showing the soldering issues and proposing what you can try to do to resolve—the photos can be viewed at the following links: thesciencehut.com/Tech-support/180625-1 , thesciencehut.com/Tech-support/180625-2 , thesciencehut.com/Tech-support/180625-3 .

Excellent product.

I bought the weather station kit for my 15year old grandson’s birthday in order to try and get him interested in electronics. I was surprised how small it was and feared trouble ahead, but the kit was perfect and the instructions so easy to follow and he constructed it with no trouble at all. It was easy to set up the internet connection and he was thrilled with the result. I’m looking forward to him asking for more of your kits.

Hi Rob, thank you so much for taking the time to leave this review, we really appreciate it! Delighted to hear it went well and that you found the instructions were detailed enough to guide you through a trouble-free assembly and set-up. Sounds like the experience has lit up your grandson's imagination too which we're delighted to hear. If you (or he) would like to find out more information about any of our other kits, or just to get some suggestions before purchasing, just reach out to us on info@thesciencehut.com, or you can find us on Facebook (The Science Hut).

Neat little kit

Bought for my husband and he's very pleased with it. Word of warning, the acrylic case can be easily broken, my husband broke off one of the 'ears' while assembling it... he stuck it back on with a little glue but it takes the look off it a little bit, so just take care while handling the acrylic panels. Aside from that, it's a neat little device and can be configured to display weather info for any location.

Hi Edel, thanks for taking the time to leave this review, we really appreciate it. Glad to hear your husband enjoyed this kit. Thanks for sharing your advice around the acrylic panels too... hopefully it will help other customers avoid the same outcome.

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Thank you for rating this kit Yuliia, we really appreciate you taking the time to do so, and we're glad that you're happy with it.

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