This was a project for self-education purpose. I created a device to monitor climate.
Background
Firstly, I want to thank Jonathan White for his evening lectures on Robotics at Lviv Polytechnic in far 2015. It was an honour to be a student of the lecturer from Harding University.
Like many other geeks, I am a big fan of science fiction: Isaac Asimov, Stanislaw Lem, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, etc. Also, I really like the idea of automatic climate control in confined space.
Therefore, as a project aimed at broadening my skills, I decided to make a device that determines climatic parameters and displays them.
Implementation
The device receives temperature and humidity from 2 points of the object under observation (room in the house, mini-greenhouse etc.) and calculates the average value of these indicators. Ideally, the measurements should be taken from the bottom and the top of the room.
To implement this project, I chose the following hardware:
- Arduino UNO;
- Nokia's 3110 screen;
- sensor STH21 (because of their high accuracy) x2;
- board;
- a set of cables.
In the work process, I faced a problem — as sensors had the same addresses, I didn't have access to both of them at the same time. I solved this problem by alternating questioning of sensors (with a frequency of 1 second).
Conclusion
As a result, I got a device that worked completely as intended. Also, I got praise from my friends who aren't connected with IT).
In general, robotics (I know that it's still far from it) truly fascinates so I hope that my portfolio will feature more projects associated with hardware and ML.
Environment
C.
Hardware
Arduino UNO, SHT21 HTU21 Digital Humidity Temperature Sensor, Nokia 5110 LCD.
Fully assembled device
Back side of the board
Cables set
Sensor STH21
