Here’s a short summary of a FeatherFONA (cellular module)working with a Pro Trinket to post tipping bucket rain accumulation data from an Argent gage to the Internet of Things. I tested the accuracy of the Argent tipping bucket gage using Adafruit’s hardware and everything performed like a champ.
I am sharing this here since there’s some basic math summarized here that might make an interesting project for a science teacher out there — https://youtu.be/iR331RDdPW4 . The tested code is available here – scroll down to chapter 22. Thanks again to Adafruit for your support, and I look forward to giving this a spin one day on the Adafruit’s IO platform.
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