We're hoping to run a workshop on building rain gages. It seems like the build would be pretty easy, but I was wondering if there are any instructions people know of for this, or materials that might work best?
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Question: Are there any good directions or materials for building rain gauges?
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Hi Stevie...I'm no expert in this area but in my surfing I happened across a few links on this topic recently. Hopefully these will be of some use to you, and get you off in the right direction:
Analog: https://www.instructables.com/id/PLASTIC-BOTTLE-RAIN-GAUGE/
Several digital options:
https://www.mysensors.org/build/rain
http://cactus.io/projects/weather/arduino-weather-station-rain-sensor
https://www.creatroninc.com/product/water-rain-sensor/?search_query=rain&results=53
Good luck!
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Here's another interesting idea I just found https://giphy.com/gifs/instrument-AsFbniBeEbecU
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I found a number of the ones that use soda bottles don't really account for measuring on cylinders that aren't strait. I wrote up an activity that helps answer that issue:
https://publiclab.org/notes/stevie/06-07-2018/accurate-soda-bottle-rain-gauge?_=1528393384
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