La Selva Biological station<\/a> in Costa Rica.<\/p>\nUsing a 1,5 day delay this meteorological data is “replayed” inside the paludarium. Why 1,5 day? Well, one day to <\/p>\n
cope with any downtime of the LA Selva database, and half a day to make sure that the sunrise and sunset are at times convenient for my timezone \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
So how is determined if a thunderstorm should occur? Simple: As soon as the Canopy (which is the smart lighting hood on the paludarium) detect there was over 5mm of rainfall within half an hour, it deducts that should have been a thunderstorm. This initiated the thunder.py script.
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\nthunder.py: Python script that simulates a thunderstorm<\/strong><\/p>\nThe thunder.py script was made especially to simulate a thunderstorm. It controls timing, lighting, sounds and rainfall. The script will actually make the thunderstorm get close, drop rain and leave again like this:<\/p>\n
1) Ten flashes that get brighter every time, sound played with less and less delay through the right speaker;
\n2) Ten flashes that are at maximum brightness, sound played with zero delay through both speakers;
\n3) Ten flashes that get less bright every time, sound played with more and more delay through the left speaker.<\/p>\n
On top of that there are also bird sounds that stop as the thunder gets to the maximum, and frogs singing in the background.
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\nWhat the end result looks like<\/strong><\/p>\nThis is a youtube video what the end result looks like:<\/p>\n