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| cfastie | "That's a great development. Thanks for alerting me to that. The key to this advance is knowing how to structure the KML code to define the color of..." | Read more » | about 4 years ago | |||
| joaquinx | "Dear @cfastie! How are you? Joaquin from Aerocene project here. One of our community members, Fede from Buenos Aires, has created a Python code tha..." | Read more » | about 4 years ago | |||
| tahnok | " I was thinking for that price I might be able to crack one open to harvest it for parts, or maybe hook up an arduino to the output somehow. BUT th..." | Read more » | over 4 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Hi tahnok, Those inexpensive anemometers seems to be missing an important feature of the expensive Kestrel and other fancy anemometers. They do no..." | Read more » | over 4 years ago | |||
| tahnok | " Have you done any test flights with some of the ~20$ anemometers you can find on Amazon to compare with the Kestrel? " | Read more » | over 4 years ago | |||
| warren | "https://publiclab.org/as220 " | Read more » | over 5 years ago | |||
| warren | "I'm putting together a page on the AS220 sensors and want to list this and another on there -- I hope that drives some interest in the SkyPod and o..." | Read more » | over 5 years ago | |||
| zengirl2 | "@cfastie well isn't that NASA item a bit complicated. Here's an Instructable that mentions that process. http://www.instructables.com/id/Low-Altit..." | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Thanks Zengirl. I don't think you can buy a NASA Aeropod. You can license the technology from NASA and manufacture them, but I don't know if anyone..." | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| zengirl2 | "First, your video is awesome and I'm glad you explained the lines from pulling in the kite. I really like the look of the NASA anemometer--what is ..." | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "A goat is way better than brown M&Ms. But that is not exactly my motivation here because I'm sure everybody reads my research notes extremely ..." | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "Hi, Chris -- great post as usual! I do have to ask about your comment regarding chemtrails -- I strongly suspect you put that there to see if anyo..." | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Hi Juanjo, It would be good to see some photos from your archaeological missions, including more of the cool kite and how you attach the camera. A..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| Juanjo | "sorry for the long absence, where should i load some photos and orthomosaics taken with the kite? This model of kite works very well for orthophoto..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "It would be fun to try an Aeropod. I couldn't find any details about the instruments, but it looks like an awesome contraption to fly. " | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "Hi, Chris, I think it's possible we could get a wind profiler "payload" for the (patented) Aeropod sent out, which has a Kestrel attached. If so, m..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "A pitot tube measures air pressure and uses fancy math to relate that to wind speed. I assume the ones on airplanes work better than the Rev P. " | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "Yeah it reminds me of the things (pitons?) used to measure windspeed from the leading edge of an airplane. Uhhhhh bootstrapping? :-) " | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "I decided not to drop into the rabbit hole of applying time series analysis to these data. There does appear to be some periodicity present, but I ..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "Sorry to miss some of this as I was away last week, and just catching up again now. This looks really great! Sorry if I missed it, but were you abl..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "I have a hypothesis about the different results obtained with two BME280 sensors on the flying rig. A difference of 3° to 4°C is more than should b..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Yes, the newer Rev. P sensor works better in high wind because it has a strong heater so the wind can't cool it off too fast. But the older Rev C s..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "Hi, Chris - this is so great. I had just been talking with folks at NASA Globe and the AREN project about wanting to test a datalogger with one of ..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "A running mean of the aerial wind speed looks like a very reasonable result. The red line is a running mean of 10 observations (which were six seco..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago |