☁️&👕 Ferris Clock: a Clock That Makes You Don’t Have to Worry About Getting Wet in the Rain or Cold Anymore

The reason that I came up with this idea is that before I came to the US, I lived in the south side of China which is pretty warm, and my mom or my roommate would always remind me to wear more or fewer clothes and bring an umbrella if there raining outside, so after I came to us, I often forgot to check the weather forecast so that I often find out after I go out that I forgot to bring an umbrella or have worn too few clothes. So I desire to design a device that can remind me of the current weather and suggest what should i wear before I head out.

Supplies

Acrylic board

wood board

glue gun

3D print material

360 degree servo

Adafruit ESP wifi board

Usb cable

Neopixel_led light stript

glue gun

super glue

knife

scissors

wire cutter

3D print machine

laser cutter

Create Your IFTTT and Your Adafrout IO Account

Follow the steps of picture to Create Your IFTTT And Your Adafrout IO Account.

Create a new feed in your Adafruit IO account and name it "precipitation."

Create eight applets in your IFTTT account by using the weather triger. And setting 8 valus: "cloudy," "rain," "sunny," or "snow" by using the "If current weather change to" as well as setting 4 values: "tshirt","sweater", "coat", "downjacket" in the same feed.

Find your AIO key on the "Settings" page.

Download the code and open it using the Arduino IDE. Update the settings to match your Adafruit IO username and key, as well as your WiFi network name and password. Make sure to install the Arduino libraries "ArduinoHttpClient," "Adafruit IO Arduino," and "Adafruit MQTT." Upload the code to your board.

After uploading the test code to the board, and connecting the circuits, the connected lights and servos will give feedback whenever data input such as "cloudy," "rain," "sunny," or "snow" is received through IO. The motor will rotate to indicate success.

4.Create four IFTTT applets that use Weather Underground triggers to monitor weather changes. Whenever the weather changes, it will be sent to the "precipitation" feed on IO. Since it's challenging to monitor weather changes directly, we still use IO for data input testing.