=====Wind Sensor Team Meeting-March 17, 2017===== **Attended: Mengyuan, Creighton, Scott** =====Acoustic Wind Sensor===== * Updates: * Soldered new microphones to tests * Began testing algorithm using the new microphones * recalculated coefficients for mapping wind speed to real time process output * calculated using single trials of 5 different wind speeds * New microphones were tested on a breadboard * Results are consistent - algorithm accurately determines wind speeds, but has fairly poor precision * To Do: * De-solder microphones from pcb and see if that fixes the original problem =====Ultrasonic Wind Sensor===== * Updates: * Transferred the filtering algorithm onboard the Teensy, so the results display immediately, without me having to copy the values and run the numbers through Python. * Using 1k samples, the results were pretty consistent (varies by around 1 microsecond). However, I noticed that the experiment was **very** sensitive to its surroundings. Even moving my hand around (about 2 feet away) was still enough to cause fluctuations in the results. * The good news is that if I keep my hands still, the results are pretty consistent. * Constructed a 40kHz square wave using a 555 timer and plan to use that to drive the transducer emitter. * To Do: * Gather some data using our current experimental setup. * Start implementing amplifier with the transducers so the Teensy can control the emitter. * Look into using high speed ADC found here: https://forum.pjrc.com/threads/25532-ADC-library-update-now-with-support-for-Teensy-3-1. Only use a limited bit precision to try and get the highest speed. * Look into using thresholding to detect a wave, and then run some ADCs to determine the phase shift afterwards.