DIY Weather Stations Report In From Chernobyl

Yury Ilyin has spent two decades building and deploying DIY weather stations across the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Each station runs on salvaged 18650 lithium cells charged by solar panels, and includes temperature, humidity, pressure sensors, a Geiger counter, and GPRS or WiFi connectivity. Over two dozen units have been deployed, surviving extreme temperatures and weather. The network has allowed tracking of Cs-137 radioactive emission decline over time. The design evolved from ATmega644 to STM32 microcontrollers.