The experiment is for switching an acoustic sounder as a rain alarm after a predetermine time. It may, however, be tinkered for a number of other applications. Needless to say, this is a simple ...

Acid rain sucks, particularly if you run a fancy university with lots of lovely statues outside. If you’d like to try and ...

It isn’t that hard to make an electronic rain gauge if you have a steady source of power or you don’t mind changing batteries often. But [Matthew Ford] offers a third option: a simple device with a ...

WE CAN’T control the weather, but tech can at least give us a heads-up when the heavens open so we can bring in the washing or anything else left in the garden. We can do this with a digital rain ...