Hobby Boards provides a wide variety of monitoring devices to help you track and control the environment in and around your home and garden. These products include weather and environmental monitors (lightning detectors, temperature and humidity detectors, soil moisture meters, etc.) and other devices such as motion detectors and counters. These are offered as fully assembled units, as well as individual circuit boards and kits for the electronic hobbyist. All of these and more can be seen in our online store.

In addition to our product offerings, this site provides general information about 1-Wire and 1-Wire networks, so that those unfamiliar with the protocol can learn a bit about it. We also have instructions on how to set up a 1-Wire network using Hobby Boards components. These informational how-to pages are designed for the relative beginner, yet have enough technical information to answer many of your questions no matter how experienced you are in setting up 1-Wire monitoring systems.

We also have a users forum, kindly hosted by CocoonTech. This is a great opportunity for Hobby Boards customers to share their experiences. We monitor this forum regularly, and encourage you to use this as your first stop for support.

Rounding out our website, you will find a page full of relevant links to more information, 1-Wire software, forums and user groups, and to our users’ own home pages. We hope these links are useful to you.

Please enjoy your visit to our site, and continue to check back from time to time. We will continue to add new content and expand our product line on an ongoing basis as we expand our business.

Weather Toys by Tim Bitson.

Weather Toys is a new book by Tim Bitson, published by Wiley. Our own Eric Vickery is proud to be the technical editor of this book.

This is the definitive book on 1-Wire weather monitoring from Tim Bitson, whose original lightning detector and barometer designs were the inspiration for our Hobby Boards Lightning Detector and Barometer. Tim covers it all, from the basics of weather monitoring, to the use of 1-Wire devices, to automation projects based on your 1-Wire weather station. Our Hobby Boards devices form the basis of many of the projects presented in this book, and we will offer packages of these devices in conjunction with the book’s launch. The book itself is now available through our online store.

For more information on Weather Toys, visit its companion website at www.weathertoys.net. You will find a complete weather station software package, source code, and specialized software tools to support these projects, plus lots of additional resources.

Whether you are just getting started or already an expert, you will find valuable information in this new book. Don’t be left behind – order your copy today!