Hacking the Weather I

Received these 2 items on my mailbox last week.

It consists of these 2 items in 1 box.

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The interest to build a weather station at home, went back to year 1998 when I first read the following article in Linux Journal ( I still have the copy of the magazine) . It was delayed without any progress, even though I visited (many times!) the website (attempted to buy but always click at the CANCEL button of the checkout page!) and also subscribed to the weather mailing-list .
My initial plan was to start small with a basic temperature sensor like DT1A so at 2002, I wrote to Brian Lane the author of the digitemp software asking whether he ship to Malaysia- (yes he did) but back then PayPal was not available to Malaysian so he asked me to pay in US cheque instead somehow I didn’t proceed with it.

Last year, I bought some DS18S20 from RS , hobbyboards temp kit
also this DT1A but the project stuck halfway mainly due to time factor—the tight 3G project schedule + a new baby was on the way (we were raising 3 kids without maid!)—yeahh right.. Rizal with his reasons again

How was the progress ?
Nothing much! I managed to revive the dead Linux PC (recent lightning casualty) and installed Fedora Core 3 on it. Thats it!
I felt a bit guilty spending too much time (hacking) on the project while the kids were awake. Uje will countlessly asking me about a lot of things.. “Abah what is this?” , “Abah, why did you do this” and Sabrina will be busy poking the screwdriver on the PC casing—she already broke my Icute front door casing.
So just wait!