Build a mini weather station ☂️

Make your own mini weather station to get the weather forcast by using Arduino UNO, DHT11, and LCD

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Know it

Explore what you will learn

Buy it

Buy the parts that you need

Wire it

Wire all the parts togather

Code it

Understand the code and upload it

Test it

Test the project that you have built

Get it

Get the resources for this project

Know it

To build our tiny weather station, a temperature and humidity sensor is needed. For our case, we will use the DHT11 sensor and connect it to an LCD screen to display the readings. This allows us to see the temperature and humidity and calculate the heat index. You can pick between Celsius and Fahrenheit too!

Buy it

For this tutorial we will need the following components, you can buy them rightway through our store.

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Voltaat DHT11 Temperature & Humidity Sensor

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Wire it

The connections between the components we mentioned are straight forward (you can also check the wiring):

Connections from the Arduino to the breadboard:

Arduino pin GND → Breadboard ground line
Arduino pin 5V → Breadboard 5V line

Connections from the LCD I2C driver:

LCD GND → Breadboard ground line
LCD Vcc → Breadboard 5V line
LCD SDA → Arduino pin A4
LCD SCL → Arduino pin A5

Connections from the DHT sensor:

DHT GND → Breadboard ground line
DHT Vcc → Breadboard 5V line
DHT Signal → Arduino pin 2

Code it

Below is the complete code that you can upload to the Arduino board in order to complete the tutorial. You can follow the comments in the code to understand how to code works and if you want to develope upon it.

/*Level using accelerometerTutorial link: https://www.learn.voltaat.com/post/use-an-accelerometer-to-build-a-levelThis is an Arduino sketch that simulates a level using an ADXL345 accelerometer and displaying it on an LCD screenComponents Needed:1. ADXL345 ........x12. LCD screen .....x13. 10K resistor ...x2Connections:LCD GND          → Breadboard ground lineLCD Vcc          → Arduino pin 5VLCD SDA          → Breadboard SDA lineLCD SCL          → Breadboard SCL lineADXL345 GND      → Breadboard ground lineADXL345 Vcc      → Breadboard 3.3V lineADXL345 SDA      → Breadboard SDA lineADXL345 SCL      → Breadboard SCL lineArduino pin GND  → Breadboard ground lineArduino pin 3.3V → Breadboard 3.3V lineArduino pin A4   → Breadboard SDA lineArduino pin A5   → Breadboard SCL line1st 10K resistor → Between Breadboard SDA line and 3.3V line2nd 10K resistor → Between Breadboard SCL line and 3.3V line*/#include// I2C library#include// Adafruit sensor library#include// ADXL345 Adafruit's library#include// LCD library// ADXL345 instance (12345 is the I2C address)Adafruit_ADXL345_Unified accel =Adafruit_ADXL345_Unified(12345);// LCD instance (0x27 is the I2C address)LiquidCrystal_I2Clcd(0x27,16,2);// Commands inside void setup run oncevoidsetup(){Serial.begin(9600);// Start the serial monitorlcd.init();// Initialize the LCD screenlcd.backlight();// Turn on backlight on the LCD// Initialise the sensorif(!accel.begin()){// There was a problem detecting the ADXL345 ... check your connectionsSerial.println("Ooops, no ADXL345 detected ... Check your wiring!");lcd.clear();lcd.setCursor(0,0);lcd.print("Sensor error");while(1);}// Set the range to whatever is appropriate for your project// Uncomment the needed lineaccel.setRange(ADXL345_RANGE_16_G);// accel.setRange(ADXL345_RANGE_8_G);// accel.setRange(ADXL345_RANGE_4_G);// accel.setRange(ADXL345_RANGE_2_G);}// Commands inside void loop run forevervoidloop(){// Get a new sensor eventsensors_event_t event;accel.getEvent(&event);// Print to serial monitor (acceleration is measured in m/s^2)Serial.print("X: ");Serial.print(event.acceleration.x);Serial.print(", Y: ");Serial.print(event.acceleration.y);Serial.print(", Z: ");Serial.print(event.acceleration.z);Serial.println(" m/s^2 ");// Calculate the bubble location on the screen// One row on the LCD is 16 characters. But we use only 15 to get// an odd number for the center value. The x-axis range between// -10 and 10. With basic math, we get the followingint bubble =round(15-(((event.acceleration.x +10)/20.0)*15));if(bubble <0)  bubble =0;if(bubble >14) bubble =14;// Print the bubblelcd.setCursor(0,0);for(int i =0; i <16;++i){if(i == bubble){lcd.print('o');}elseif(i ==5|| i ==9){lcd.print('|');}else{lcd.print(' ');}}// Pretty-print axes to the LCDchar buf[17];sprintf(buf,"X:%02d Y:%02d Z:%02d",(int) event.acceleration.x,(int) event.acceleration.y,(int) event.acceleration.z);lcd.setCursor(0,1);lcd.print(buf);// Wait for 0.1 seconddelay(100);}