{"id":6386,"date":"2020-04-14T07:55:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T11:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plastibots.com\/?p=6386"},"modified":"2021-10-14T14:48:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T18:48:55","slug":"weathercloud-iot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plastibots.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/14\/weathercloud-iot\/","title":{"rendered":"WeatherCloud – IoT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So, my son’s been bugging me to get him some of those LED strips for his room.\u00a0 You know the ones that you see on Amazon with the remote controls.\u00a0 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<\/em> bandwagon and built him something a big puffy cloud with lights – what every teen wants right? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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).<\/p>\n

Second (this is the “dude that’s cool” bit) – It uses Blynk<\/a>\"\"<\/a> so my son can use his phone to set manual lightning sequences or RGB colours\u00a0 (e.g. sparkles, bouncing balls, any colour want etc).\u00a0 So I suppose it’s a mood light as well.\u00a0 \u00a0So a big puffy, Internet-connected weather mood light.\u00a0 BPICWML.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The video below demonstrates first all the LED sequences that can be controlled by the Blynk app, and secondly some weather patterns that would show based on current weather conditions. I had a “duh” moment after realizing I videoed from the backside (showing the ESP8266 controller case) and missed the moon (on the lower left in front). Meh… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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