Conrad Farnsworth has designed a retro CRT weather display which recreates The Weather Channel’s WeatherStar 4000+ interface of the 1990s.
The CRT takes up most of the space in the enclosure, with a Raspberry Pi Zero W providing the necessary processing power and connecting to the CRT through its composite video output.
A custom PCB plugs into the GPIO header on the Raspberry Pi, with features including a rotary encoder for volume and brightness, a control button and a serial UART interface as well as a speaker driver.
The device is powered by USB, with the designer noting that it draws more current than USB 2.0 can provide, but that USB-C should be able to keep up.
A Python program enables a cycle of three slides displaying local and regional weather as well as a radar display.
