It isn’t that hard to make an electronic rain gauge if you have a steady source ... You can make 3D print a tipping bucket device, too.

So that’s where the tipping bucket rain gauge comes in. Invented in 1662, this clever instrument doesn’t just measure rainfall; it records it in real time. Inside the gauge, a small ...

[Malte Pöggel] thinks so, and this LoRa rain gauge is the result ... The rain-collection funnel and tipping-bucket mechanism were perfectly usable, and the space vacated by the existing circuit ...