“On a breezy day, a flag can take a real beating as it blows around at the top of a flagpole. Now there’s a way to know just what conditions are like on that pole, thanks to a project that placed sensors at the top of one campus flagpole to transmit data to a web site in real time…”
Original Link: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/2002/apr03/flagpole.html