Materials: "BLANDA BLANK" stainles steel serving bowl
Description: An 'anemometer' is a device that measures wind speed. You can buy them, but they are usually quite small.
So I decided to build one myself. The BLANDA BLANK servings bowls are excellent for this purpose. Twelve centimeters in diameter, you can't ignore them when they are spinning around in the wind.
The rest is PVC tubing, with red spray paint. The bearing that allows for smooth rotation is the motor from a hard drive. The shiny disks from the drive add bling to the device. The finishing touch, the big green glass marble, I bought in a toy shop.
~ Caernac
Not a hack.
ReplyDeleteWhat? Why? Of course it's a hack.
DeleteWho knew that salad bowls could turn into wind-o-meters?
Cool!
Going with "troll" on this one. Ordinarily I get offended by "not a hack" comments, but this so obviously is a hack that I can't take the first anonymous seriously.
DeleteNice hack:) I have an honest question, though. Is it a problem that the bowls would catch the wind better (and those are probably not the right words, but I don't have the necessary vocabulary) from one direction than the other?
The bowls do catch the wind from every direction the same way.
DeleteIf the wind is from the right, then the bowl you see on the front is catching the wind. If however, the wind is from the left side of the picture, then it's the rear bowl that is catching it. And every thing turns well! ;-)
Does it actually measure wind speed, like on a screen... or is it just a pretty spinning thing on your room
ReplyDeleteThe speed with which the bowls are spinning will tell you how windy it is outside. No need for numbers on a screen.
DeletePlainly it could have a simple reed switch and magnet attached to add that. Why the snarky comment for what is a pretty clever sensor mechanism or at the very least a pretty spinning thing? BTW, I doubt it will spin "on your room", whatever that means.
Delete@anon2: Actually I didn't see any snarky comment, apart from yours - and I just hope that you are so perfect at (foreign?) languages AND always so perfectly concentrated that you never mix up any words or make typos. "on your room" might simply mean "on your house", or "on your roof", and is not an essential part of the sentence anyway.
DeleteAs for the switch and magnet, isn't some kind of cable even visible in the pictures? Or what is the white plastic-coated thing?
Well, it's easy...:-)...:
DeleteAnemometer doesn't spin = no wind
Anemometer spins = wind
Anemometer is abcent = storm
@Don Krypton: ROFL!
DeleteAnon2 here:
DeletePrue, you are right. I was reacting to the negativity I sometimes see here and ended up adding my own. I think I will be building one of these myself, btw.
I added a magnetic sensor, hence the white cable. You can see little magnets on the underside of the 'arms' of the device. I am thinking about hacking something else (could be an IKEA clock) to use as wind-speedometer.
ReplyDeleteI think its uber cool :-)
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