We did it!

We did it! 

I’ve just come back from setting up our first WeatherCube test and was going to show you all the work we’ve been doing the past week, from prototyping our radiation shield, to refining our parts list.

Now, instead we get to thank you for supporting us! We cannot thank you enough!

We’re not finished here. If we can get more supporters than the other Atmospheric Science experiments, we can leverage the money you donated with a $1000 bonus grant from Experiment. That’s a lot more WeatherCubes!

Specifically, with that extra $1000, we can build around 15 more WeatherCubes. We’ll do this by taking advantage of minimum orders- with a bulk order of lithium batteries, we can halve their per unit price from $10/unit to $5/unit, and by custom ordering our solar charging boards, we can reduce the per unit price. This will reduce our overall cost by about 10%. Any extra money donated by extra backers can go to field staff, who will help us coordinate and install WeatherCube host sites.

Thanks, Anna, Chris, and Yan

 

Above: Yan and Chris discussing WeatherCube housing design. Below: the first WeatherCube prototype in a testing environment.