WeatherCloud – IoT

So, my son’s been bugging me to get him some of those LED strips for his room. You know the ones that you see on Amazon with the remote controls. Pffttt.. I couldn’t just go with status quo, so instead with a little grit and some free time I got on the LED cloud bandwagon and built him something a big puffy cloud with lights – what every teen wants right? 😉

What is it? It’s a LED weather cloud. What does it do? First it displays weather forecast info using weather data from DarkSky.net. Data is parsed from a JSON feed and rendered in LED sequences in the cloud (rain, sunny, thunderstorms etc).

Second (this is the “dude that’s cool” bit) – It uses Blynk📷 so my son can use his phone to set manual lightning sequences or RGB colours (e.g. sparkles, bouncing balls, any colour want etc). So I suppose it’s a mood light as well. So a big puffy, Internet-connected weather mood light. BPICWML.

Don't want to duplicate effort, so have a look at my blog for a full write-up: http://www.plastibots.com/index.php/2020/04/14/weathercloud-iot/