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    Microcontroller Based Wind Direction Measurement System
    (ResearchGate GmbH., 2016) Muchono, Blessed; Chifamba, Saymore; Kamunda, Caspah
    This paper reports on a microcontroller based wind direction measurement system that displays wind direction in real time. A W200P wind direction sensor manufactured by Vector Instruments Ltd was used to measure the wind direction. The microcode assembler (MCASM) assembly language was used to write the program that was then blown into the peripheral interface controller (PIC) 16F872. The PIC 16F872 processed the wind direction signal from the sensor and displayed the real time azimuth angle, from 0 to 358o on the seven segment displays, while single LEDs were used as cardinal and primary inter-cardinal direction indicators. This system successfully displayed wind direction in real time and managed to respond to very fast changes in wind direction at a resolution of approximately 2o.