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| mathew | "another nugget: 6.2 Estimating salt concentrations using the Tala kite Vertical salt-content concentration profiles can conveniently be measured b..." | | almost 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "I love this piece from the Anders TALA report: 5.4 Practical advice As high school students provide an inexpensive and reliable source of kite fly..." | | almost 9 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "Some more TALA reports I have found across the net anders_TALA_report.pdf wasp_wind_turbine.pdf " | | almost 9 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "I'd be very curious about the springs. It said they included several to monitor a very large wind range. TALA's design looks like a combination of ..." | | almost 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "oohh.. its cool to find out they calibrated it by dragging it behind a car (checked for speed with radar) in still wind. That's a repeatable proce..." | | almost 9 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "Found some more .PDFs on the TALA system neal_kite.pdf kite_anemometer.pdf " | | almost 9 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "WOW! I'm very happy to hear you bought the system. I'm extremely interested in TALA. The manual that came with it looked very detailed and I would ..." | | almost 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "I can't stop getting excited about this and doing bits of research on it. the Charles Woodhouse patent governs the Approach Fish device. this thi..." | | almost 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "really quick search for more on the TALA system found this US army evaluation of the Fish TALA: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a097082.pdf " | | almost 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "I just purchased that kite. unbeatable price on a functioning kite anemometer. maybe we can dissect it and replicate it. the system was patented..." | | almost 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "no, I've never made such a system. I'm intensely interested in trying it though. " | | almost 9 years ago | |||
| ecta64 | "The posts you did were fascinating. Have you ever made a complete TALA system? If so what kind of equipment does one need to procure/build? One of ..." | | about 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Yes! Really cool kite. Here is an earlier note on anemometers with a real nice thesis on the subject. http://publiclab.org/notes/mathew/2-1-2013/..." | | about 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "glad it came back! those trees... " | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| warren | "Great to see that kite doing well in all kinds of conditions! I'll have to build myself a new Tyvek kite soon based on the EasyCut design " | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| warren | "Or: 2 Cut 2 Easy " | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| eustatic | "easy cut 2: 2-E-Z " | Read more » | about 11 years ago | |||
| eustatic | "the animated gif: a next-level, old school, low-res instructional video " | Read more » | about 11 years ago |