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Editorial isometric cutaway illustration of a small anemometer with exposed bearings, a rotor magnet and a nearby sensor, drawn in graphite with cyan accents on an off-white notebook background.

When Zero Wind Means a Stalled Rotor

A portable weather station offers a useful robotics lesson: a zero reading can come from a stalled mechanism. Use a small rotor experiment to separate what the sensor reports from what the mechanism actually does.