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Weather station project built with AI-assisted coding.

It’s definitely been done before, but this version has the twist that much of it is designed and developed with AI tools. With all this AI capability available now, I figured I’d channel it into a fun little project. The plan is a 3D-printed weather station featuring: Wind vane Anemometer Temperature/humidity sensors Altitude sensing GPS for location and time Rain gauge An ESP32 running on battery power will collect sensor data and transmit it indoors using ESP-NOW. It will also log readings locally to an SD card for backup and history. Inside, a Cheap Yellow Display (CYD) will show live weather conditions. The data can also be rebroadcast over Wi-Fi via MQTT to Home Assistant and other dashboards. I may even add a second CYD in the living room as a dedicated display. Should keep me busy—and out of mischief—for a while. Since I am using free AI's, I will break the project up into small pieces to stay inside the free restrictions A Claude project started (the outs...