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Jun 3, 2026 · 1 minhardware

Building a storm monitor: AS3935 lightning sensor + ESP32-S3

Detecting strikes up to 40 km out, rendering them on a TFT, and learning the hard way about disturber rejection and SPI noise.

Detecting strikes up to 40 km out, rendering them on a TFT, and learning the hard way about disturber rejection and SPI noise.

What this post covers

This is placeholder body content for the EmDash + Astro build. Richard will rewrite it with the real write-up — code, photos, and the parts that actually broke.

Placeholder draft — not final copy. Seeded from blog-design.html to exercise the layout and Portable Text rendering.