For brake lights, look in reflections or ask someone to check. For the indicators, simply activate the hazards which will illuminate all of them. It’s worth checking your car lights are working correctly once each week. Turn signals provide other road users and pedestrians with information on what your intentions are. In older cars, the flash rate will be slower than usual. In newer vehicles, if a bulb has blown the flash rate will increase. The legal flash rate for indicators is between 60 to 120 flashes per minute. Additionally, fast flashing turn signals can also suggest that an incorrect bulb has been fitted. If all of your bulbs are working, but the indicators are still flashing too fast, this may suggest either faulty wiring – a poor ground connection for that lamp assembly. If a bulb blows, then the flasher changes its cycling rate. With all the turn signal bulbs functioning correctly, they will flash at a normal rate. The indicator, or ‘turn signal’ flasher unit relies of a certain electrical current passing through it, which is made into a complete circuit when either the left or right indicator is activated. What is Engine Coolant / Antifreeze & when to Use It.What is a Catalytic Converter and How they Work.His other hobbies also include biking and photography. He started programming with Fortran, later Basic, Visual Basic, Python, and now with Arduino. Now he is “retired” and selling e-bikes and loving it! He has been an electronics hobbyist since his teenage years. Gerolf was a metallurgical casthouse engineer for much of his career. So I tested a Neopixel ring with static color (nice but could be better!) So my final dream is for cloudy weather to make a slowly changing color, fading in and out from light grey to grey, for thunderstorm some flashing.

Do you have future plans for your Arduino weather indicator project? I have a better understanding of structure of programs, how functions are programmed, and how they work. Yes, I am now more confident doing little programs on my own. Was the training at Programming Electronics Academy able to help you build your skill? Looking back on this project, what can you say you have learned about programming and/or electronics through the creation process?Īs stated in the lessons at PEA, think about the project as a whole, and write down a plan on how it should work. Get it running as it was described in the original documentation and Json versions in Arduino IDE were frustrating.

What were your biggest struggles as you worked through this project?

It then lights up LEDs to represent various conditions like rain, hail, clear skies, hail, thunderstorms, etc.

It parses a Json document for the forecast and weather conditions.

(If your interested, here is a list of some other weather APIs)

Connects to and uses my location and API key to get weather data.

How does your Arduino weather indicator work? It’s basically an ESP8266, which is an Arduino compatible WiFi enabled microcontroller. That will be part 2 of this project! What type of Arduino board does your project use?Ī Wemos D1 Mini. I quickly realized the the indication of weather states with single LEDs could be improved by usage of NEO-Pixel LEDs. I wanted to make something similar, but also simple and modern. I remember how interesting it was as two figures would move out of a small wooden box which would indicate rain or sun. When I was young my grandparents had a mechanical weather forecaster that worked with the air humidity. Read below to learn more about his project…

We’ll let him explain it in more detail below, but essentially his device connects to the web, gets the local weather data, and displays it via LEDs all using a WIfi enabled Arduino compatible microcontroller! So at a quick glance he knows if it’s sunny, cloudy, or if there’s rain or not.

My weather indicator not working