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| 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 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 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 » | over 7 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 » | over 7 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 » | over 7 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 » | over 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "The Mini Pearl Logger in the compost pile stopped logging today when the battery voltage dropped too low. Four AAA eneloops ran the logger for 13.5..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "I checked on the Mini Pearl logger in the compost pile today and swapped SD cards. It was still logging after 7.5 days, so that's a new record. I n..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "I found that pulling up the three lines usually helps the cards sleep faster. Unfortunately this is completely controlled by the sd controller circ..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Thanks Ed, I disabled the LEDs and deployed the Mini Pearl Logger in the compost pile again. The batteries lasted 6.5 days instead of 2.3 days. So..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Thanks guys. I started the SkyPod wiki. I'm never sure what constitutes an Activity, but maybe there will be some obvious ones eventually. " | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "I almost fell over laughing at the name of this post (and am a bit jealous that I did not think of it...) Your logger should be running for much lo..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| warren | "This is very cool. Chris, any interest in starting a /wiki/skypod page, where we could collect Q&A and such? I was about to ask about the weigh..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| patcoyle | "Very nice, Chris. " | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Ah, I see. Those keywords, DATE and TIME, refer to the time the sketch was compiled and are saved on the Arduino until a new sketch is loaded. Tha..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| zoomx | "As cfastie noticed this line RTC.adjust(DateTime((DATE), (TIME))); reset the RTC to the same time every... time the setup is fired that's because ..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "That would be terrific if a ferrite bead eliminated the noise I was seeing. My impression was that the bead was protection against radio frequency ..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| pdhixenbaugh | "I know that USB cables sometimes come with a barrel on them that's designed to reduce electrical interference, but I forget what it's called (I had..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Thanks Ed, It's good to know there is hope for the Nano. That's an excellent thread you linked to. I might try removing the LED resistor and the r..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "That lack of alarm is pretty irritating considering that the 1337 has them built in, and they could have simply used that chip instead. Watchdog ti..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago |