Weather Station

A wooden station with a bucket, a strip of bin bag, and a thermometer. I was six. I wrote the numbers in a notebook and tried to understand the weather.

What I built

I built a wooden structure in the backyard and attached three instruments to it:

• Rainfall — a bucket to collect rain. I’d check the level after each event.
• Wind — a strip of jätesäkki (bin bag) tied to a stick. It showed direction and gave a rough sense of strength by how far it extended.
• Temperature — a thermometer fixed to the frame.

I logged readings by hand in a notebook. No code, no electronics — just observation, measurement, and a pencil.

Why it matters

This was before I knew what engineering was. I identified something I wanted to understand (weather), figured out what I needed to measure, built the instruments from whatever was around, and started collecting data.