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Tipping Bucket Rain Gauge
- PETG
- Advanced
- Secondary
- High school
About this print
An automatic rain gauge: rain fills a small see-saw bucket that tips, and a magnet passes a reed switch each time. One tip is 0.2 mm of rain.
Students learn how a sensor turns a physical event into a count, then log rainfall with an Arduino or ESP32 and chart it over weeks.
Design by DusanJ on Printables, shared under CC BY 4.0. The files and photos are the designer's, unchanged.
Printing and using it
- Everything prints without supports. A 0.6 mm nozzle is faster for the big parts. Use PETG and UV-resistant paint for outdoor use.
- Fit a 5 × 2 mm round magnet and a reed switch.
- Calibrate: pour a measured amount of water and count tips; adjust the screws under the bucket.
- Connect to a microcontroller and log rainfall per day.
