abstract

For this entry,I will briefly explain about my project.

The purpose of this project is about to design and build a device that using the ultrasonic sensors, which one of the ways of measuring the wind blow. This wind speed meter is intended for use in a variety of sport-type activities, such as track events, sailing, hand-gliding, kite, model aircraft flying and many more. It also can be used to monitor the conditions in the garden.

A probe is pointed in the direction from which the wind is blowing and a screen displays the rate at which the wind is moving between two ultrasonic sensors. The readout is shown on an alphanumeric Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), with reading in meter per second, feet per second, kilometre per hour and miles per hour. The resolution is to the nearest tenth of meter per second, from zero up to around 50mph and possibly higher.

Basically, this project is separate into three main parts. The first one is to finds and designing the hardware that required and related to the project, the second part is to construct and develop the hardware together with testing and troubleshooting. Then the third is designing and develop the software part and combine together with the entire of hardware component developed. In this project, the main electrical and electronic component use including ultrasonic sensor module, PIC Microcontroller and also LCD.