Cabin construction timelapse (off-grid solar powered)

Spring through Summer, 2010, our cabin in the mountains was built. This movie is a compilation of about 12,000 images taken at 5 minute intervals (minus the periods where our contractor was not working on the cabin). The bottom portion of the movie displays a 4 hour sliding window of Outdoor Temperature (red) and Dew Point (blue) corresponding to the time the image was taken. The site is off-grid, so I hacked together a solar (photovoltaic) power system to supply a computer and weather station with power. To save energy, the computer was modified with a simple custom circuit enabling it to remain on only when there was sunlight available. Hardware included an Asus EEEpc, Logitec webcam and La Crosse weather station. Power is from a Kyrocera 135W solar panel and an Optima Yellow Top sealed gel-cell battery.

Still photos of the weather station construction are available on picasa, here:
http://sn.im/solar_powered_wx_station

The software I wrote to collect the image and weather data, and to compile the images into a timelapse movie, is available on BitBucket:
https://bitbucket.org/ewalstad/wx_station/src

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• nevada
• county
• 95959
• cabin
• camping
• timelapse
• snow
• solar
• photovoltaic
• electronics
• python
• django
• open2300
• google
• charts
• pygooglechart

[liatris69]

Awesome camera setup...

[philipkent07]

I want one!!

[NFT2]

I like how your cabin has a block foundation and is off the ground. It should last a lot longer than most especially since its reinforced.

[jedon13]

Very cool!

[erok2020]

Incredible!