On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 10:32 -0700, Ron K. Jeffries wrote:
KiCad is quite capable. It's used in the qi-hardware group where Werner Almsberger has added a nice footprint editor.
That's good to know, I've just done some schematic capture in it and I haven't used any of the artwork layout side.
Lua is a good language. I don't think you'll go wrong with C however. The entire Arduino universe is a pretty good existence proof that C is palatable. We;ll, they have some libraries that make things easier.
I've done a bit of development is C so I'm just sticking with what I know. I'll have to take a look at what Arduino have done and see if it would be easy to incorporate some of there ideas.
As to your approach to measure wind speed, it is a clever idea, but the old fashioned way is pretty easy.
I would love to lay claim to this idea but there are a few commercial systems that calculate wind speed this way. As for doing the old fashioned way I must admit that I need something a little different to keep my interest up when it invertible hits a wall.
Chris W