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 ...

In Aug. 2024, a team of NASA researchers and partners gathered in Missoula, to test new drone-based technology for localized ...

To measure wind speed and direction, most people turn the traditional ... anemometer using a cheap after-market parking distance sensor kit and an Arduino. Demo video after the break.

Powered entirely by the sun, it has no moving parts: the rain gauge is a haptic sensor on the top, and wind speed and direction are measured sonically. Lightning detection is also the best for any ...

Read Pilot in command Brayden Chamberlain performs pre-flight checks on the NASA Alta X quadcopter during the FireSense ...

The sensor has a dielectric polymer layer ... the wind is coming from and the value for the maximum wind speed. The output for direction is an analog voltage signal directly proportional to ...