Arduino Forecasting Without The Sensor Stack

Description

A green Arduino board hangs outside on a rough stucco wall next to a taped-up paper labeled "Arduino Weather Forecaster." The paper has two columns, "Condition" and "Forecast," with the mappings: "Arduino is wet" to "Rain," "Arduino is dry" to "Not Raining," "Arduino is warm" to "Sunny," "White on top" to "Snowing," "Can’t see Arduino" to "Foggy," "Swinging Arduino" to "Windy," "Ice on Arduino" to "Frost," and "Arduino gone" to "Tornado." The humor is that an embedded weather station has been reduced to a passive physical artifact, bypassing sensors, firmware, wireless telemetry, and dashboards entirely. It is a very literal take on edge computing: put the edge device outside and look at what happened to it.