New SwitchDoc Labs ThunderBoard Lightning Detector Extender Kit.
This kit, designed for OurWeathe (ESP8266 with Arduino IDE)r, allows the detection and reporting of Lightning up to ~30 km away. It comes with the ThunderBoard AS3935 based lightning detection board, an I2C converter and a 50cm Grove cable so you can mount your lightning detector far away from the noise generated by your computer.
Neat. For your next trick, triangulate the direction ^^;
@Bunny_Evans We need two units to do that! I am wondering about a set of directional antennas located at one place. 4 YAGIs and 4 lightning detector all at one location. Fun project
@John_Shovic 2 would give you two possible locations, you actually need 3, you could probably do that in a triangle with fixed spacing and some math.
But then you’d go insane and it would be plotting lightning strength on a map.
@Bunny_Evans , Yes, location and distance requires 3 for trilateralization.
What I was suggesting that we use directional YAGI antennas that we could look at the signal and see what direction it is coming from by comparing the strengths on the 4 directional antennas. Then you can use the strength of the bolt to place it on a map. At least on an area of the map.