Project 9    Dale Kinneck & Wind Speed Meter.

Dale Kinneck. He is an outstanding student. He loved computers. He read about computers. I showed him how to build an interface that would hook up to a PC through a USB port. He built a windmill or a wind speed gauge which is shown in picture above.  There was a magnet on one end of the fan blade and the magnet would trip a switch. The computer would count how many times the switch tripped in 10 seconds and then calculated the wind speed by the diameter of the blades and how fast it would travel at the end of the blades.

It was a very impressive project.