I want to hook them up and get them running to create a portable wireless wind speed station. I think a sailing club or kiteboarding beach could really use something like this to create a database of super local windspeed data over days and seasons. On kiteboarding beaches people are always pontificating on what the wind is like and what it 'does', so this would add some actual data to the discussion. The data and visualizations could be made available on a publicly hosted chronograf page for guests/kiteboarders to log in and view (yay multitenancy!) so that you could maybe see if the wind is picking up or going down on the beach where you are headed. You could start formulating ideas on what the wind did at the same time yesterday or this month etc.
This should be a quick and easy project that involves some light hardware hacking.
I have a particle electron which connects to the cellular network: https://www.particle.io/products/hardware/electron-cellular-dev-kit And I have an analog anemometer: https://www.adafruit.com/product/1733
I want to hook them up and get them running to create a portable wireless wind speed station. I think a sailing club or kiteboarding beach could really use something like this to create a database of super local windspeed data over days and seasons. On kiteboarding beaches people are always pontificating on what the wind is like and what it 'does', so this would add some actual data to the discussion. The data and visualizations could be made available on a publicly hosted chronograf page for guests/kiteboarders to log in and view (yay multitenancy!) so that you could maybe see if the wind is picking up or going down on the beach where you are headed. You could start formulating ideas on what the wind did at the same time yesterday or this month etc.