Engineers have developed a wind sensor for drones and autonomous aircraft that is lightweight, low-energy, low-drag and more sensitive to changes in pressure than conventional types. As demand for ...

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. For [Jianjia ...

Engineers have designed and successfully tested a more efficient wind sensor for use on drones, balloons and other autonomous aircraft. Engineers have designed and successfully tested a more efficient ...

The Netatmo Weather Station, which can accurately and in real time measure weather information such as temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide concentration, air quality, noise level, atmospheric ...

Wind speed measurement has long been a cornerstone of meteorological observation, renewable energy assessment and aeronautical research. The performance of anemometers—devices designed to accurately ...

Here is an introduction to the low cost anemometer (wind sensor) from Modern Device (http://moderndevice.com) . This small sensor suitable for electronic experiments ...

COMSTOCK PARK, Mich. — Meteorologists all over the world use a wide variety of instruments to measure things like temperature, air pressure, humidity and a host of other variables. In Tuesday's ...

In order to test feasibility of using drones as a flying wind sensors, researchers from the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have performed autonomous flight ...

Problem: build a combined anemometer and wind vane where the pivots for both sensors are coaxial. Solution: turn an old universal motor into a step-wise potentiometer for the wind vane, and then pull ...