A pleasant setting for a pretty Pioupiou

A pleasant setting for a pretty Pioupiou

3 big projects this week:

It started with my move. Not so insignificant: to work effectively, you need to have a very healthy life… So I left the city to settle in the middle of Grésivaudan.

And not just anywhere, since it's at the foot of Saint-Hilaire-du-Touvet. I have my house on the take-off route. The objective " ☑ 
live in paragliding
is therefore validated!

Now, the next step is to install Pioupiou's headquarters in the ZI of Lumbin. There, it will really be the top of the top, since “ ☑ paragliding to work »🙂

[opening the bedroom window] Where did you go?

After Meanwhile, Tuesday and Wednesday in London. It was the awards ceremonyOpen Data Awards, organized by theODI.

I was a finalist, in the category Open Data Individual Champion Award - celebrating an outstanding individual pioneer of open data.

It was cool. I cycled on the wrong side of the road, and I was able to drink an aperitif with the man who invented the internet.

In the end, I didn't win. The lady who won is Irina Bolycheski, the girl who makes the software C KAN, used by the open data sites of almost all governments. (including date.gouv.fr until not long ago)

And yet, I had put on my beautiful suit. It may be because of that, it was too suspicious. So dodgy that airport security checked the chemical composition of my toothpaste − probably to see if it was a bomb.

But even if I didn't win, it's still a good sign. It shows that my work on opening up weather data is starting to make its way internationally.

And while I lost myself moving and getting on the plane, I was able to reflect on our little Pioupiou. With the precious help ofAlcide, here are some suggestions:

Which do you prefer?

12 thoughts on “ A pleasant setting for a pretty Pioupiou »

  1. The one that will have the least frost that adheres and that best evacuates the water from the axis of the propeller... 😉
    Or which will present enough photovoltaic surface to power a GSM transmission… 😉

    Question by the way: are the beacons produced so far in service and can we read the measured data somewhere?
    aside from the demo at Lumbin Landing…

    thank you for the information

  2. the 5 is there the piaf that we recognize, I'm a fan right away, I would even say: that one or nothing!
    on the other hand, will her pretty slender tail be strong enough over time?

    for the history of frost, I work in a resort, anenos are often caught in frost…
    it is certain that if the bug is on a northern slope and does not see the sun of the day, the situation can last a long time and the shell of ice/snow… become very thick and heavy… (if no one comes to remove it delicately with great blows of ski poles!)
    But are the few days when the phenomenon occurs so important and significant? compared to all the rest of the year when the temperature is more "human", vol-free-speaking...

    Anyway, putting a defrost resistor or painting the pioupiou black would not be the right solution for a weather sensor!
    The all-in-one imposes concessions.
    The top in surface condition (not adherent and very smooth) and UV resistance is polycarbonate, and in white most certainly

    (The best trail markers and markers are in this matter, word of a former tracker!)

    In the meantime, personally, I may avoid the scrap ball bearing, because it frosts severely and easily on this kind of cold spot. (just look at the mouth of the ski lift cables before starting up the devices, and when frost appears of course.
    This kind of thermal bridges in scrap metal should be avoided to best limit frost.
    The outer diameter of the shaft should be thin enough, over a considerable height so that the shaft is not blocked too quickly by frost, and so that the tail lever arm - rotation shaft is large enough to that the possible rotation of the wind vane by the wind contributes to breaking and causing snow, frost, ice to fall, which could freeze the pioupiou to its support...
    The piou piou must be as thin and slender as possible (while remaining sexy of course!)

    Artistic-ecological delirium only: One could perhaps imagine a solar defroster with just a black tail connected or close to the bearing of the axis of rotation by a small copper wire, outside and at the ass of the critter! (only works if his tail is hot in the sun, the rest of the time it's crap!)

    NB: personally, I don't fly in -15°C and 60km/h winds...although in these cases, I'm so starved in speedriding that the beacon is the least of my worries, so if the pioupiou blocks sometimes, it wouldn't matter, it would just have to be able to report its status and its data as being blocked... (ex: if no wind or change of direction for X time, wind reliability index (strength, direction) low … (to be included in the forecast calculations one day?)

    Thank you for everything dear Mr. BALDECK
    in cyan

  3. Aesthetically nice the 5 but probably it would be necessary to choose the shape which resists best to 250 km/h and which would not create lift so as not to help Pioupiou to take flight… 😉

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