Back to InqWind Contents This installment is more on the esoteric side. If you are just wanting to build an InqWind, and don’t really care about technical details, you can easily pass this one by. If on the other hand you are designing your own, there might be some value in some of these results. …
InqWind – Plastic Bearings and AS5600 Experiments Read More »
Back to InqWind Contents Being landlocked, I don’t really have a sense of how bad a boat degrades when out on the coast. When it comes to wind speeds, however, I will certainly be making sure that the InqWind Anemometer can hold up to gale force winds. Not that I’ll be actually in the boat …
Back to InqWind Contents Well… maybe more than half a brain. Fortunately at the suggestion of forum members on the OpenMarine site, I looked a little closer at the Yachta wind sensor. My first, casual glance showed the sensor Yachta used was a 12 bit sensor. The one I had originally picked out was a …
Back to InqWind Contents This is the second installment for the DIY Marine Anemometer project. Use the link above to return to the first page with the project contents. This installment discusses the primary electronics being used in the project. QMC5883L 3-Axis Magnetometer I’ll be using the ubiquitous QMC5883L 3-axis magnetometer. These are readily available …
Introduction I have a small sailboat. I do not have a yacht. Living far from coasts, I’ve mostly sailed on lakes with an occasional outing to a bay or to parts of the Intercostal waterway. Even with these glorious jaunts, I’ve been with groups of other sailors on perfect sunny days. In other words, I’ve …
Edit January 2, 2024 – There were a few issues running this procedure on a Desktop version Raspberry Pi 4B, using the 64bit Bullseye. My main goal was for the Headless, Lite version on a Zero and it worked as I needed. Doing the same procedure on the 4B had issues with the two WiFi …
This is a focused topic and is not really meant to be a tutorial for a new beginner. I won’t be boring you with how to install the Arduino IDE and ESP8266 Boards Library or even why you might want to use Deep Sleep. If you’re here, you probably already know these things. This is …
Trials and Tribulations using Deep Sleep on an ESP8266 Read More »
The InqPortal IoT / App / Web server version 5.2.2 is now available in the Arduino IDE Library Manager. Here are the new features and what you can expect from them. Multi-Server All web-servers, InqPortal included, are geared to service multiple clients. Now, the InqPortal client library supports connecting to multiple servers. The servers do not have …
InqPortal 5.2.2 – Multiple-Clients Talking to Multiple-Servers Read More »
The goal of this library has always been to make other project developers job’s easier. Working with students of all ages from pre-teens to senior citizens, I’ve found, almost without exception, all are keenly interested in getting their hardware projects up and running as quick as possible. The excitement factor of seeing their own hardware …
The InqPortal IoT / App / Web server version 5.2.0 is now available in the Arduino IDE Library Manager. Here are the new features and what you can expect from them. Way-High WebSocket Throughput Testing – We do extensive (shall we say abusive) testing. These edge cases, these Fringe events are to push Inqportal beyond …