anemometer with basic stamp?

daidalos62

Hey guys,

I'm wondering if anyone has info on gathering data from wind speed and getting it into the basic stamp, which could the be used to drive motors and other types of outputs.

Mike Green

Look on Tracy Allen's website (www.emesystems.com/BS2index.htm). He has a section on measuring wind speed.

Paul Baker

Take a look at this link: http://www.emesystems.com/OL2wind.htm#Annemometer

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Paul Baker
Propeller Applications Engineer

Parallax, Inc.

daidalos62

thanks guys , these links are great

it seems they're using the owl2e data logger, which is a bit out of my price range, but I suppose you gotta pay to play.

I wonder if I can bypass this and wire up the anemometer in the same way one could wire up a potentiometer and read the RCtime....

RDL2004

The last couple of Nuts and Volts magazines have had articles on building your own weather station. See if you can track those down, maybe order back issues. The anemometers were in the March issue I think. You don't need an owl2e any Stamp will work, all you need is the anemometer. www.aagelectronica.com was one source given in the magazine, I will try and remember to get the other links when I get home.

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- Rick

Paul Baker

It's not a prerequisite to use the OWL (though it is a well made product), they are based on the BS, so you can adapt the code to your own setup.

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Paul Baker
Propeller Applications Engineer

Parallax, Inc.

Bruce Bates

Many of the OWL Data Loggers have a Parallax PBASIC Stamp under the hood, so don't be too overwhelmed by the price. There is a lot more sophistication and protection built-in to the OWL Products, but the basic capabilities are still the same.

Regards,

Bruce Bates

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daidalos62

I don't doubt the OWL products are well worth it, its just that this project has a rather small scope and a short lifespan. I'll only be using this set-up as a prototype, so its probably not cost-effective. I won't really be needing perfect precision. Its good to know that its out there however.

Thanks for the replies!

RDL2004

Okay, I was wrong. It was the February issue of Nuts and Volts that had the anemometers. There were several versions shown ranging from mostly do-it-yourself to the deluxe already assembled unit from AAG.

Here is a hub and cup kit, build the rest yourself kit from Forcefield Magnets:

www.forcefieldmagnets.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=22_30&products_id=31


Here is a pretty much complete anemometer kit and some other weather stuff from Fascinating Electronics:

fascinatingelectronics.com/weatherinst.html

The deluxe weather instrument from AAG that I mentioned in my earlier post is a speed, direction, temperature unit that uses the Dallas 1-wire system and may not be that easy to interface to with a Stamp.

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- Rick

Robert Kubichek

I thought that the "p" series and newer stamps had 1wire commands in them, and that there was a lot of example code just for 1wire??

Bob

Bruce Bates

Bob -

You are 100% correct about the BS-2p* series being able to work with Dallas 1-Wire devices.

Regards,

Bruce Bates

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