Desktop Weather Module | Devlog #7

Desktop weather (and room temperature) module that plugs into your computer!

Exhilarating delightful resplendent news!🥳

I GOT THE TFT DISPLAY! It said it was going to come in August (like the 5th), BUT it came on wednesday!

What I worked on (finally have the display):

• Replaced old 1602 LCD on breadboard with the TFT Display
• Used photopea to layout the text so the Dynamic (updating) and Static text would look nice together
• Updated the code to make the display work and have the data displayed
• Made the PCB for the weather module (it needs a lot of work and I got lots of great feedback to implement)

Its basically August 1st rn. I won’t be able to truly finish the project until September (after vacation), however; I do think I can get the enclosure 3d printed and have it working with the breadboard (we’ll just imagine it isn’t there).

Future Plans:

• Continue to update code:
  – add weather forecast for the week
  – better display code to switch between pages and update dynamic screens (only updating if there’s a new value instead of a constant interval)
  – if i have time, adding different cities to switch between
• fix Fusion 360 enclosure (I kinda messed up a bit on the parametric modeling so I have to fix that)
• 3D print enclosure (hopefully next couple days)
• Assemble! (without the PCB)
• Update PCB design with feedback
• Order and test PCB (september)