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To detect something, you at least need response that isn’t effectively zero at the relevant frequency. And bonus points for not having ludicrous amounts of jitter due to polling a sensor over a bus like I2C that is really not intended to collect high frequency, equally spaced samples.

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It "looked good" for me up to 100Hz after Nyquist in the spectrum but didn't pull any precise data. Just created a 50Hz tone using my speakers which showed up in the spectrum afterwards as expected as basic verification

Took some spectras from heat pumps, airplanes and a helicopter.

So the sensor isn't blind within this range.

Huh, impressive.

A long time ago I used a hot wire anemometer to measure flow up to several hundred Hz, but that was an expensive instrument being read by an expensive National Instruments acquisition platform. This is a cheap, self-contained device. Go Sensirion.

I wonder whether the frequency limit ends up being set by the ADC or the physical sensor. I’m also curious how the Sensirion sensor detects the sign of the pressure difference.

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