I was going to give thanks in all the threads, but that would have polluted the forum somewhat.
And getting a job (I now work on a dredger) and having my second child (Mattéo, born this 28th Feb) got in the way.Last year, a bunch of you helped me debug an analogue sensor amplificator, the supply circuit and the transfer of the data to an Arduino datalogger.
Despite a few setbacks (live and learn), the project was worked in that it won the
"Best Mémoire 2016" prize, aka "best project and write up".
And as a collateral, my hi-marks in electricity, electronics and high tension also gave me the "best alumni 2016" prize!
This could NOT have been done without the help of this forum, "virtual group hug".I had never won anything scholar before, so I'm still pinching myself!
All this using a UT61B multimeter, a 15MHz oscilloscope that was at one time in a trash container and a shoe string budget!
I could not reveal all the details as there had been some shenanigans of projects ideas getting stolen between academies/students previous years.
So basically, I was trying to see if the aero deflectors on trucks could have a use on ships.
This is complicated because wind is 360° on a ship, 30° on a truck, 1/4 wind speed, much larger air volumes etc...
I did not want to do a pure maths exercise because of the low and turbulent air speeds I was working at - and building stuff is fun!
(in a nutshell, this project landed smack in were "normal" non compressible fluid dynamics start to break down and the other methods were giving inconclusive results depending on assumptions.)So I made two large yet very light cubes mounted on 4 sensors, and a set of deflectors that I alternated between the cubes over a period of time datalogging pressures, wind speed and temps.
End result, there is an effect, but I have no idea if it is significant enough to be commercially interesting.
So, a big shout out to (in no particular order):
rs20, igendel, michaeliv, sleemanj, retrolefty, SL4P, Ian.M, westfw, Rick Law, danadak, blueskull, wraper, macboy, Cerebus, munkeyman1985, T3sl4co1l, Kalvin, MarkS, EdoNork, Codemonkey, HackedFridgeMagnet, ve7xen, suicidaleggroll, langwadt, Godzil, tautech, Seekonk, alsetalokin4017, MK14, Mephitus, Simon, diyaudio, Andy Watson, daddylonglegs, rdl, Aodhan145, Hero999, Dave, Andreas, poorchava, Marco, Aodhan145, mk_, exe, retrolefty, Paul Moir, Dago, SeanB... And probably others I have missed!