and for wind speed and direction the choice is usually a simple cup anemometer and wind vane. For [Jianjia Ma]’s QingStation, he decided to build another type of wind sensor: An ultrasonic ...

[Janne Jansson] decided to combine a set of measuring cups, a hacked Linksys NSLU2 NAS, and a PS/2 Mouse together to make a self-contained Wind Speed Sensor for his roof. The measuring cups act as ...

However it’s large, heavy, and I don’t think the pros need the mapping help — but it does have a pretty cool extra feature: an integrated wind sensor ... metric of wind speed sets it ...

The sensor has a dielectric polymer ... Cup anemometer with separate wind vane - Uses three cups to measure wind speed, while a wind vane measures wind direction. The vane always points in the ...