vintage instruments
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A Maker Saved Two Wind Gauges From a Demolished Airport Tower and Gave Them an ESP32 Brain When his local airport tore down its old control tower, one maker got the chance to salvage two vintage wind meters from the controllers' console: a wind speed dial (0-100 mph) and a wind direction dial (0-360 degrees), both heavy steel cans with glass faces and night lamps. Instead of putting them on a shelf, he made them show live wind again, fed from his own weather station and driven by a… |
