2017-11-02, 10:59 PM
This is an old post but I can not restrain myself from adding a very simple and cheap wind sensor for a weather station. I followed the instruction from Chapter 6: Outdoor Weather Station in the book "Raspberry Pi Blueprints" ISBN: 9781784392901.
They use replacement parts for Maplin Weather stations such as https://www.maplin.co.uk/p/maplin-replac...96fy-n82nf and https://www.maplin.co.uk/p/maplin-replac...96gy-n81nf and an arduino. The arduino code could easily be modified to output nmea sentences.
Similar to the Peet wind sensor, the Maplin parts work with reel switches but at a signficantly lower quality and resolution (and price since it cost around 10£ in total!!!)
They use replacement parts for Maplin Weather stations such as https://www.maplin.co.uk/p/maplin-replac...96fy-n82nf and https://www.maplin.co.uk/p/maplin-replac...96gy-n81nf and an arduino. The arduino code could easily be modified to output nmea sentences.
Similar to the Peet wind sensor, the Maplin parts work with reel switches but at a signficantly lower quality and resolution (and price since it cost around 10£ in total!!!)