Vaavud Wind Meter - Kickstarter Project

[dale3h]

Hi all, I'm not very active here, but I figured I'd share this project with you all. It seems very intelligent, and might be a very affordable wind meter.

The project is called Vaavud. It is a project on Kickstarter, which is a crowd funding website. I have no affiliation with this company or this product.

http://kck.st/1448VUz

Thoughts?

 

[ChrisViperM]

Cool....could come in handy....thanks for sharing



Chris

 

[soler]

Hi all, I'm not very active here, but I figured I'd share this project with you all. It seems very intelligent, and might be a very affordable wind meter.

The project is called Vaavud. It is a project on Kickstarter, which is a crowd funding website. I have no affiliation with this company or this product.

http://kck.st/1448VUz

Thoughts?

Alternatively check out this

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wind-meter/id306375551?mt=8

Works with iphone but without any hardware, it just uses the sound of the wind coming off your mic, I also kitesurf a lot and I use this app frequently. It is reliable and I do not need to remember to bring any hardware.

 

[maxwelltub]

This looks awesome thanks for sharing. I will be backing this project for sure. I can see all sorts of cool applications and future development for this hardware. From the reviews of the other app mentioned the use of a microphone to detect wind does not work so well.

 

[RuralFPV]

The Vaavud wind meter contains no electronics, but still connects wirelessly to your phone... Wait, what ??
Yes, you read it correctly The secret is two small magnets in the rotor. The magnetic field sensor in the phone can detect when they rotate, and by using algorithms normally used for sound processing, the rotations can be converted to wind speed. Complicated engineering, made user friendly and simple. In fact, nobody has utilized the smartphone magnetometer in this way before.

Feekin' brilliant!