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BeagleBone: Creative Projects for Hobbyists

You're reading from   BeagleBone: Creative Projects for Hobbyists Build amazing BeagleBone projects and maximize your skills with projects that walk, talk, and fly!

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Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788395656
Length 1020 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rodolfo Giometti Rodolfo Giometti
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Charles A. Hamilton Charles A. Hamilton
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Richard Grimmett Richard Grimmett
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Chapter 8. Measuring Wind Speed – Integrating Analog Sensors

Now your sailboat knows where it is, and you can control the rudder and sail; you'll now want to do some actual sailing. But because you don't have an onboard power source, you're going to rely on the wind for your power. To do this, you'll need some way of sensing both the direction as well as the strength of the wind.

In this chapter, you'll learn the following things:

  • Connecting an analog wind sensor to the BeagleBone Black
  • Using the BeagleBone Black analog-to-digital converter to read the value of the wind speed
  • Some of the basics of sailing so that you can sail in almost any direction

Connecting an analog wind speed sensor

Since you are going to use wind as your power source, you'll need to know both the direction and strength of the wind. You can do this with an analog wind sensor. Here is an image of a wind sensor that is fairly inexpensive, from www.moderndevices.com:

Connecting an analog wind speed sensor

You can mount...

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