Good intro to one wire and how it works
I bought this book for a bargain price from one of the sellers on amazon. It has good information about how one wire sensors work. Also if someone is interested in Java this will break you into getting a sense of how that works. But there are some corrections that were made after the book was published, especially concerning how to list the onewire usb adapter. I had some problems getting it to work until I looked up the authors website and read some of the comments.
All in all, I probably would not buy a one wire weather station again because there are other weather stations that give you a lot more features for the price. But I would get the very inexpensive one wire temp sensors to play with as an introduction to such devices.
I did learn quite a bit from the book and am glad I understand what it takes to do java programming even though I barely scratched the surface.
Expand 1 Wire and Weather Device Knowledge
This book is an excellent primer to help you understand 1 wire devices and weather devices. I found that it helped motivate me in other directions such as bee hive monitoring in conjunction with the weather. The programs are good but it would be nice if they were available in alternate programming langauges such as C, C++, Visual Basic and a few others. I am not well versed in Java at this time so the alternate programming language would help greatly especially since I am in the process of doing remote wireless using the Rabbit microprocessor with ZigBee for the weather devices and the alternate languages would help the process. If you have a need to know about 1 wire and weather devices this book is highly recommended...
Dynamite and full of good projects
The introduction to the Java programming environment is well worth the price of admission. This is for folks who want to build a real proefessional grade weather station and not just a toy demon.
Lots of Information
I am not fond of Java. The book would have been of more use to me had the code examples been in VB or C#. The other problem I found with the software is that it was hard to locate. I had to dig around on the web to find a good link to the software files. I also had problems getting all the bits and pieces installed to get even one of the examples to run.
That all aside there is a lot of good information available in the book if you are building your own weather station.
I found the formulas that the auther used invaluable.
Awesome!
A great book - very informative. Tim Bitson takes you step-by-step in both the software and hardware projects so that even the beginner can complete them.
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