I started experimenting with reporting wind data through the CWOP (Citizens Weather Observer Program). Using OSCirrus, my open source wind speed and direction package, I've been collecting wind data for a long time (nearly a year) but have never contributed the data.

CWOP is an organization which uses a ham radio data protocol called APRS which has provisions for reporting weather data either through a ham data channel or directly through the internet. Since I'm not a ham operator, the internet channel was obvious.

I created a Ruby program which reads the wind data feed my device pushes to my web server. It then tracks average wind speed and maximum gusts over the sample period, formats the CWOP data string and sends it to the CWOP servers. Those servers in turn track the historical data for a time and it's possible to see a web page of graphs divvied up by various time intervals.
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Tags: Wind, Weather

I built a wind speed and direction system out of some parts from Fascinating Electronics and Spark Fun. The results of the project I open sourced and are available at http://oscirrus.see-do.org

I also have a technical project site at http://sawdust.see-do.org which is mainly a place where I keep notes on some technical stuff I'm doing.

With those sites, I'll focus on technical content. This site is mainly for personal and family info.

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