{"id":2389,"date":"2025-11-30T20:30:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbuzz\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2025-11-30T20:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:32:09","slug":"microbit-wind-vane-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbuzz\/microbit-wind-vane-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Micro:bit Wind Vane Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Can you think of how to combine the two ideas below to make a weather vane that will record the wind direction every hour?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think your weather vane would need to be a bit more robust than the one below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Start by sketching your design and thinking about what materials you might need.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_55219\"  width=\"960\" height=\"540\"  data-origwidth=\"960\" data-origheight=\"540\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a3P6LWwPBqM?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"micro:bit compass\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_19573\"  width=\"960\" height=\"540\"  data-origwidth=\"960\" data-origheight=\"540\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jHgHcuCRXmA?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"HOW TO MAKE A WIND VANE | Wind vane - School Project | Step by step instructions on making wind vane\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you think of how to combine the two ideas below to make a weather vane that will record the wind direction every hour?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microbit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbuzz\/uploads\/sites\/35004\/2025\/11\/30203030\/weathervane.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions\/2397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}