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@donaldhoudek2889 19 сағат бұрын

Great video! My only question is does being mounted next to the furnace exhaust vent deflect the wind and not give a true wind pressure?

@riggsron Күн бұрын

Now this project is a good one for me. I want to do the HUB but it's kind of intimidating (50 years ago as a young tech, I had a brief career working for a telephone company when I found out I was colour blind) Sense of humor can only take you so far.

@andreazanobetti 2 күн бұрын

Hi, I have bought your great kit! 😊 Your suggested Strain Gauge Sensor is the BF350-3AA, 350 ohms? Thanks!

@nateback796 4 күн бұрын

Brooo thank you so much for these weather station videos. I'm trying to build a complete system that includes Temp, Dewpoint, Baro, Wind, rain, and snow depth all on one RP Zero W and im not about to blow $150 US on a bucket sensor to tell me if its raining. I'm also looking into a Microwave sensor but everything I find is for human detection High and low (yes its raining/ nope all clear). I want to be able to measure the intensity!

@JerryOhh 8 күн бұрын

Can it be modified to include an automated animal feeder per donation drop rate.?

@matbreg8836 9 күн бұрын

Thank you for sharing the rain gauge. I have now downloaded your files and hope to print this soon. :)😀😀😀😀

@lipton_sub 9 күн бұрын

POLSKA 1:51 OBRÓBKA METALI ZBIERAMY SIE POLSKA MAPA

@SmartSolutionsForHome 7 күн бұрын

99% tego co jest w tym filmie było nagrane a Polsce :)

@lipton_sub 7 күн бұрын

@ jesteś z Polski ?????

@SmartSolutionsForHome 7 күн бұрын

@@lipton_sub Tak :)

@lipton_sub 7 күн бұрын

@ to supcio a też bym chciał takie pianinko

@askaremresemiz6894 11 күн бұрын

how do you think it will performe on a sail boat?

@markglover2525 14 күн бұрын

Elegant, high-quality, meticulously researched solution. Blown away.

@kozfelipe 16 күн бұрын

It's a very good engineering work, although with the increasing improvement of wireless, I prefer to use solutions like wi-fi / zigbee / matter / thread than using this much cabling hub

@ericwineteer7673 20 күн бұрын

This is really cool! I'm an environmental scientist and I'd love to build one of these for my research. Do you know how accurately it can measure small wind speeds (on the order of 0.05 m/s)? If there's a way to build and calibrate it for lower speeds, I'd definitely publish a paper on it and cite your website.

@ayakhateeb6399 20 күн бұрын

hi i want to ask you question about the project how can I contact you

@remotepinecone 21 күн бұрын

please tell me you are measuring using weight not volume... hall sensor lol nice idea though. I could do this with marbles. and a stick.

@SmartSolutionsForHome 20 күн бұрын

Thanks for the comment-you’re actually the first person to point that out! And of course, it’s totally valid. I did consider doing it that way, but in my opinion, it’s close enough to assume that 1ml ≈ 1g. Obviously, density of water depends on temperature, and the higher the temperature, the greater the deviation. But we’re talking about roughly 4% at boiling point (100°C). Within a more realistic range (up to 30°C), the error shouldn’t exceed 0.5%. So, I feel like there’s no point in splitting hairs over this.

@kwindapp 23 күн бұрын

Cool but how ist with temperature changes ex. 45 degrees and -5 degrees ? i would like to test one

@sklepa 24 күн бұрын

Hahah! Super! Widziałem to na rolkach gdzieś ze stanów, a tu proszę, za inżynierię odpowiada polski chłop! :) Jestem dumny. Może się pokuszę o zrobienie takiego dla piesków jak znajdę kilka wolnych dni :) Nie ma problemu z wyłamującymi się klawiszami jeśli sprężynują tylko na tym fragmencie petg? Bardzo fajny projekt i wykonanie. Pozdro!

@SmartSolutionsForHome 24 күн бұрын

heh! W 100% polski chłop ;) Nie ma problemu z wyłamywaniem ponieważ klawisze poruszają się w bardzo małym zakresie. Nie pamiętam teraz dokładnie ale skok klawisza to jakieś jakieś 6-7 mm. Zatem ten fragment PETG ugina się dosłownie o kilka stopni. Dzięki za fajny komentarz! Jak będziesz robił takie pianinko dla swoich piasków i będziesz potrzebował jakiejkolwiek pomocy to śmiało pisz!

@sklepa 24 күн бұрын

@@SmartSolutionsForHome Super, dzięki! Szanuję i kłaniam się niziutko :)

@jordestay 25 күн бұрын

dobra robota, bardzo mi się p̵o̵d̵o̵b̵a̵ pogoda

@Robbedoes2 26 күн бұрын

Bird: hey let's try that thing out to sleep on

@ArranAsh 28 күн бұрын

Just came back to say that after 5 months my gauge is still working perfectly even after some extremely heavy rain storms and pretty deep snow build up. Battery is also still at 70%! Thank you very much for the design!

@SmartSolutionsForHome 27 күн бұрын

Thank you so much for your comment! That’s really great to hear! I’m glad everything’s working fine with the Rain Gauge after five months. Honestly, you’ve been using it longer than I ever have! :) I installed the WiFi version myself, and it’s been trouble-free too, but the battery for sure lasts longer on Zigbee version.

@mdrichards 28 күн бұрын

😁👍

@alifiroz2012 29 күн бұрын

next part

@synguyenvansy645 Ай бұрын

Mạch này bro có bán không

@hu5116 Ай бұрын

Great project, thanks so much!

@SmartSolutionsForHome Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@rampak1 Ай бұрын

Impressive!

@SmartSolutionsForHome Ай бұрын

Thank you

@GaryBarclay Ай бұрын

Very cool hub, what happened to the followup video?

@mumbucorporation7243 Ай бұрын

Czy znasz sposób aby odczytać chip implantowany zwierzętom...mam trzy koty i nie akceptują token RFID na wisiorki 😅

@mumbucorporation7243 Ай бұрын

Rewelacja 😂 👍, kot jeszcze nie wywrócił aby się dostać? 😅

@alflud Ай бұрын

That's an awesome approach to wind measurement. Good job. This device would surely sense the vibrations of an earthquake too - do you think it would mainly be a matter of writing additional code to interpret the signals [calculate a Richter value] or would different hardware be needed? In any case, this is awesome as it is. I love it.

@remiheneault8208 Ай бұрын

Dude you casually mention your web UI, even though it's already a lot of work by itself! Crazy project, very high quality production. A tool I use for prototyping quick web UIs in Python (I'm terrible at front-end) is Streamlit, no JS/CSS needed.

@ChozoSR388 Ай бұрын

How do you measure off-cardinal wind directions, like NNW, SSE, etc...?

@bussi7859 Ай бұрын

It is also affected by rain and hail, bad concepts. Ultrasonic Doppler sensor is a lot better.

@SmartSolutionsForHome Ай бұрын

Isn't a classic anemometer (I’m not talking about the ultrasonic one) also vulnerable to rain and hail?

@electronics.unmessed Ай бұрын

Really nice idea! Thx for sharing!!

@SmartSolutionsForHome Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@JasonBlack66 Ай бұрын

I love Ukraine and Ukrainians.

@SmartSolutionsForHome Ай бұрын

Awesome! P.S. I’m not Ukrainian ;)

@phillipzx3754 Ай бұрын

"The cross beams need to be strong and flexible." In other words, they need to MOVE. 😉

@SteveWrightNZ Ай бұрын

Hmm, how to use it on my boat and cancel out the inertia.. maybe with a wind-protected counerbalance below..

@railgap Ай бұрын

1. what problems does this design solve over extant designs? 2. you failed to do any sort of believable calibration. Without proper calibration, all your effort was wasted.

@ZeedijkMike Ай бұрын

You make very interesting and likable videos. Great job.

@Scott-i9v2s Ай бұрын

A technical nitpick:🤓 "No Moving Parts" is not really true. For the strain gauges to work, whatever they are attached to must bend, meaning movement--even if just a tiny bit... Granted that this is no GROSS movement, like a piston in a cylinder...🙂

@edeaglehouse2221 Ай бұрын

I was going to say something similar but "no moving parts" commonly refers to no friction between parts moving past each other. Nothing that can be fouled like a rotating anemometer or wind vane.

@Scott-i9v2s Ай бұрын

@@edeaglehouse2221 I am not disagreeing, at least not really; after all, I said "no GROSS movement, like a piston in a cylinder". BUT... can one truly speak of "no friction" between MOLECULES when a piece of material (the strain gauge itself) is forced out of its normal shape?🙂

@ivanhunter3907 Ай бұрын

Cool ifea😢

@marcelob3869 Ай бұрын

I have to measure the rainfall across a farm (about 4km range), which is the best way to transmite the data in such distance?

@SmartSolutionsForHome Ай бұрын

LoraWAN would be the best option here. Look for a door sensor with Lora built in. There are a few available on Amazon or AliExpress.

@washingtoncowboy7295 Ай бұрын

Nice presentation. I'm sure you've considered other possible applications, but one in particular may be worth a serious look. I'm an aeronautical engineer and also a sailor. I have a 42' Kutter (similar to a sloop but with two foresails.) An important metric for sailing such a rig is known as "apparent wind." This is the wind that the boat "feels" as it sails through the water, which is the vector sum of the true windspeed and the true speed of the boat over "ground." A second important parameter is the "true wind" which is the true wind velocity and direction (vector sum of windspeed and true heading.) The latter can be found on a moving boat by the vector sum of the apparent wind and a determination of the vector velocity of the boat with respect to "true north." This quantity is available from the ship's data system and is provided by a GPS signal at the ship's GPS antenna. This signal runs on the data buss encoded according to the CANBUS language known in the marine world as NMEA 2000. Other metrics include "relative wind" (velocity and direction with respect to the ship's longitudinal centerline) and variants with respect to magnetic course (who's baseline can be provided by the onboard GPS system, which also operates the ship's electronic compass.) An electronic compass can be set to provide information in terms of either geographic or magnetic "north." The typical marine anemometer and wind direction sensor is of the "cup and vane" type you showed in the early part of your video. The second type is the "ultrasonic" variety that you alluded to as well. Units of either type are usually mounted at the top of the mast (for my boat, that distance is at least 15 meters above the waterline,) with electrical connections running in a cable which is generally suspended inside the mast. The cable exits at the base of the mast and is then spliced into the data buss loop. Marine wind sensors can be placed at locations other than the mast-top but such locations are subject to errors due to the effect of rigging, spars and deck features on the incoming wind. Such placements are easier for installation and service considerations, but suffer too much in terms of accuracy for most applications. Either of the conventional sensor types is subject to frequent maintenance due to salt encrustation, biological growth and mechanical stress. Maintenance is therefore expensive because, for the typical application, a professional rigger needs to be employed to climb the mast. As you said, the ultrasonic sensors are VERY expensive but the cup-and-vane type aren't that much cheaper either. Since the cup-and-vane type usually requires more maintenance, the cost for either is about the same over the life of the unit. I think a slightly more rugged version of your idea could be adapted for off-shore marine use. There may be some additional signal conditioning required to account for the inertial effects of a moving point of attachment, but you are clearly capable of ferreting out such requirements for a more advanced model than what your video shows. In addition to the rotational axes (yaw, pitch and roll) there are of course three translational axes Sx, Sy and Sz (Sz being displacement normal to the earth's surface.) In the direction of these displacements, one will of course find in addition to velocity, the term acceleration, and a non-zero jerk [(ds/dx''', ) (ds/dy''' ) and (ds/dz'''.),] which is the first derivative of acceleration along the three axes. There will be second and third derivatives of rotations too, but perhaps not as severe as in the case of translational dimensions in response to wave action. Third derivative terms should be low and linear accelerations should be less than 0.6 g even in severe conditions. Your use of signal averaging over a period of time might suitably attenuate second and third order effects. There are rotational displacement and rate of rotation sensors for marine use (particularly for roll and pitch) but I know of none that could be used for conditioning the effects of linear accelerations except for GPS. I think there is a sizable market for a wind sensor, of the type you have developed for stationary use, in marine applications. An average quality cup-and-vane sensor for blue-water cruising costs in the neighborhood of $2,000 with installation, and an ultrasonic sensor installed could be $7,500 or more. Multiply the cost of the latter by five for serious racing boats where knowledge of wind speed and direction determines who wins or looses cup trophies; and where 20 meter long boats cost $10,000,000 and up. In addition, there are the commercial markets (primarily container ships and passenger liners) and military applications where, in both examples, sales of this kind of equipment is immense. Please get back to me in a way that we can converse more easily. Google has my email address, and if you have them contact me, I'll be sure to respond. As a content creator, you may already have access to such information. I'd love to consider a collaboration with you in some kind of development enterprise. I've started a few successful small businesses, I have an advanced degree in business and as I said, I'm a degreed engineer. At the very least, we could use my boat as a test-bed and I would be happy to cover the costs of mounting and dismounting prototypes for evaluation during the development period. I hope to hear from you soon. - w.c.

@alangaughran Ай бұрын

A cheap and cheerful one to fit on my dinghy mast would be good. If my boat goes over ( it does, sometimes) my birgee gets wrecked by impact on the water, lake beds or at least cakes in mud. I've been trying to make a simple fixed vane burger to run data to display to save my neck craning.

@ssolomon999 Ай бұрын

Yes! I clicked on this video exactly for that application - I’d envisioned something along these lines, with the idea you could use it to calculate true wind direction and speed, but I don’t have the expertise to actually design the thing. Please collaborate on this, I think there’d be a market for it.

@ssolomon999 Ай бұрын

Ideally you’d mount one at the top of the mast and another at deck level, then you could leverage the data for all sorts of useful stuff. Seems like this device would be great for identifying changes - wind shifts, puffs, etc. - which is more useful than absolute values anyway. And it’s inherently more robust than those finicky flimsy twisty spinny things.

@edeaglehouse2221 Ай бұрын

You bring up a let of great points that highlights some of the differences been a stationary platform and a moving one. You can do more averaging in the software to account for all the yaw/pitch/roll moments of the top of the mast. There is probably a more elegant algorithm far that, since most of those movements are cyclical. A commercial version would benefit from an inertial sensor to factor out those movements. The nice thing is all the components are available off the shelf and the modifications would only require adding their outputs into the basic formulas.

@washingtoncowboy7295 Ай бұрын

@@ssolomon999 Thanks for both of you're responses. I have been disappointed not to hear from the party who posted the original piece with his invention. I hope he's not focused solely on the low-cost stationary application such as use with a home weather station. While such devices are fun to have, they really don't compare to the need for reasonably accurate information and the cost of operation for the serious marine environment. Yes the market is much larger, in terms of units sold for home weather stations, but overall sales for professional use could be equal to or greater than one could realize for the home market due to the relatively high price per unit for the latter. While it's pretty easy to get a cup-and-vane sensor and display for home use at around $200 per copy (install it yourself,) a good, rugged wind data system for a sailboat that sees quit a bit of time 200 to 1,000 miles offshore (one that I'd trust my life to) would be valued by most serious cruising sailors at $3,000 to $4,000 or more, installed. I couldn't tell from your responses how you use your boat, but I infer that it's primarily for day or weekend use with the occasional week of "camping-while-gunkholing" and that it is seldom used to transport you from one place to another over the sea. The reference you make to "changes in wind direction" and "puffs" depict different modes of operation than "blue-water" sailing, where one doesn't make landfall more frequently than every week or so. On my Kutter, I have two autopilots. One is for when I'm motoring and the other for when I'm cruising under sail at some distance from land. The "motoring" autopilot is tied into either my GPS compass (when motoring on a fixed heading for long periods - no wind conditions) or into my chart navigation system (also GPS based) for when I want to correct course at certain predefined waypoints, such as when making way to a marina from open water. She won't take me into a given slip, but almost. Cruisers often use a second type of autopilot that "locks" into the wind called vane-steering. In very general terms, the farther one is offshore, the less variable are changes in wind over time. It's not uncommon for me to set my steering vane to a given optimum course for "speed made good" and not return to the setup for course adjustment for a day or two at a time. The boat always sails to the apparent wind. While the actual wind may vary by a point or two between adjustments, the ease and safety of not needing to retrim the sails makes up for the slight inefficiency in average direction until the course legs become short as when approaching land. In addition, while there are sometimes gusty conditions offshore, such situations are less frequent than if sailing near land, or in a bay, lake or river. At 11 tons and with a 3 ton, deep-draft iron keel, I don't have much trouble with puffs except for the most unexpected wind changes such as those seen when approaching a squall line. In those cases, I'm always at the helm. I'd love to collaborate with you, but I don't know how to exchange contact information without exposing both of us to unwanted email or phone traffic. If you do, let me know here and we can try to get something started. I do have an anonymous P.O. Box that's not obviously tied to my home address, that I'd be willing to provide to you so we could privately exchange information for more convenient contact. If you'd like to start something like that, contact me again here and I'll risk letting everyone know what my P.O. Box number is. For a general reference, my boat's home port is Astoria, Oregon, U.S.A. - w.c.

@ebaab9913 Ай бұрын

One thing not taken account of is moisture, it is going to eat the PCB and components

@philb1466 Ай бұрын

I'm late to the party .. as usual! 🙄 But got here from your excellent wind gauge video. This is another great video! Oh! And you get extra marks for showing your working out (hand written calculations) 😅

@philb1466 Ай бұрын

Oh! No! Here's another channel I've got to subscribe to! There'll be no time for me to actually build anything after watching all these videos! 😂 .... Great video, both video and project build were very professionally done, well done sir! Things left for me to do: Thumbs up the video.. Check. Hit the subscribe button.. Check. Right, now i can watch your rain guage video. Curse the KZbin algorithm, it knows me too well! 😁👍

@jubuttib Ай бұрын

8:09 Gotta say, I've used JLCPCB in a few different projects over time, and they have been fantastic. Even if it's something as simple as making a button box, I like using a PCB because it makes getting everything aligned and soldered so much easier than loose wires. The shipping quote in the video looks high, but if you're not in a hurry, they have cheaper options. My orders have usually cost in the vicinity of 7-10€ to ship, with a delivery time of ~20 days. When the PCBs themselves often cost about as much, I can take the wait over having to pay multiples of the PCB worth in shipping.