Weather stations are a popular project for experimenting with various environmental sensors, and for wind speed and direction the choice is usually a simple cup anemometer and wind vane.

Why not pull out that very high quality bearing that keeps the platters spinning at high RPMs and build this simple anemometer with it? That’s what [Sergei Bezrukov] did, and it looks like a ...

Ryan taught the kids about temperature, wind, and air pressure. The kids also learned about the different types of ...

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If you place your weather station in an alley, you could very well get a wind tunnel effect on the anemometer, resulting in erroneous wind data. Your weather station should have good "fetch", or ...

Debris and insect meshes help keep the instrument clean. Cup anemometer with separate wind vane - Uses three cups to measure wind speed, while a wind vane measures wind direction. The vane always ...

The 1903 Flyer had three instruments on board: a stopwatch to time the length of flights, a "Veedor" engine-revolutions counter to measure engine rpms, and an anemometer to measure distance.

Friday’s strongest was 25, from the same direction. Perhaps one would need to be a human anemometer to detect the difference. To further emphasize the similarities, on both days, as of 5 p.m ...