This is a coastal tide clock made with a K40 laser cutter using Ordnance Survey data from their open map service. This is a tutorial showing you how you can make one using your own location.I cut the map using a K40 laser with an upgraded smoothie board if you haven’t got your own laser cutter there are many offerings on the web or join a local hackspace.
Featured on instructables here http://www.instructables.com/id/WAVEbuoy/ The WAVEbuoy is a arduino lamp connected to the internet that displays the current wave height of any of the National Data Buoy Centre’s wave buoys. This lamp is currently connected to the Sevenstones Lightship buoy that gives an indication of swell approaching Cornwall in…
Some php code to parse data from the new met office public data API this code is 3 hourly reports from Porthleven https://ginandtronic.com/Swellcloud/parse.php
This is a great open source project ive been following since it started. I contacted them last year asking if they could overlay swell data from decoding GRIB files from the NOAA Wavewatch 3 model. Looks like they have now sussed it out. Its mesmerising to watch huge swells animating…
