I initially opted for the budget end of the scale and purchased a Maplin Anemometer (pictured above) which is sold as a replacement part for the Maplin weather station in the UK and is available to purchase price at around £3. A quick look online revealed that a number of wind speed meters or anemometers were available to purchase, ranging in price from just a few dollars up to over $200. The first stage of this project however was to create the basic DIY Arduino wind speed monitor to check that the parts functioned as required and write the code.
#Wind speed reader upgrade
So I decided to create a simple DIY Arduino wind speed monitor that we could tweak over time and eventually upgrade to a Raspberry Pi and send the data to a website wirelessly. They also recorded the wind speed at quite long intervals which and nearly all didn’t provide any way of tinkering or modifying the data output in any way, only viewing it on the provided screen or purchasing additional hardware to explore the data to a computer. Although they provide a quick and easy way to start monitoring wind speed, most of the installations monitored other variables such as rainfall, which at the moment we are not interested in.
DIY Arduino Wind Speed Meter – ResearchĪ quick bit of research online provided a wealth of ready-made weather stations you can purchase ranging from £40 or $50 up to and above $500. Having recently moved to a coastal location the winds now play a larger role in our everyday life than they did when we lived more inland and it wasn’t long after moving in that we all wondered how strong the winds actually were that were battering our house during the recent winter storms. If you are interested in creating a DIY Arduino wind speed meter or anemometer to monitor the wind strength in your location, you might be interested in this quick tutorial I have put together to create a very basic Arduino wind speed meter, that my family use on a daily basis to capture wind meter readings in mph and record the fastest speed since the last reset.
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