Make your own instrument to figure out what direction the wind is blowing from.

What does St. Peter have to do with weather vanes? A lot according to historical records. Check out the history of this iconic symbol.

Build an at-home wind vane to keep track to the wind direction.

Weather vanes, used for centuries to indicate wind direction, now serve primarily as ornamental and symbolic decorations. Weather vane designs, often crafted from copper or gold-gilded steel ...

Weather vanes may have different appearances, but they generally have one thing in common, and that is the direction the "arrow" points with respect to wind direction. That part of the vane ...

Also, even when the wind is truly calm (0 mph), the wind vane may continue to show the last direction the wind blew, even if it has stopped completely since then.

Smaller turbines are directed by an old-fashioned wind vane, but most of the big ones in our area are directed electronically.

Because the airfoil is free to rotate like a wind vane, it can be used to measure the direction of the wind. But to test how their device would fare once subjected to Earth's atmosphere ...