Snow Scraper
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Every great DIY project starts with a spark—an itch to solve a problem in your own way. For skiers and riders, the problem is simple: how do you know, without fuss, if the mountain just got blanketed in fresh snow? That spark turned into Snow Scraper, a project that’s as much fun to build as it is to use.
At its heart, Snow Scraper is a Raspberry Pi adventure. You’ll wire up a touchscreen, calibrate the touch controls, connect a buzzer, and light up addressable LEDs. You’ll dive into Python code that scrapes snowfall data from real ski resort websites, parses it, and puts it on your screen. You’ll configure an alarm system that doesn’t just beep—it sings the Powder Day Anthem when your chosen snow threshold is met.
Along the way, you’ll pick up practical maker skills: GPIO control, web scraping, JSON logging, and soldering. And the best part? It’s all open-source, so you can add your own ideas—maybe different alarms, more resorts, or even something completely unique!
The journey is the reward here. By the time you’ve finished building your Snow Scraper, you won’t just have a powder-day predictor—you’ll have a device that you understand inside and out, because you made it. And nothing feels quite like that.
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