Samantha KovichAsha McDougal
Published © GPL3+

Universal Temperature Sensor

There's thermostats on the wall, weather apps on your phone, but is there an accurate way to measure temperature freely?

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Universal Temperature Sensor

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Argon
Particle Argon
×1
Small Solderless Breadboard Kit
Digilent Small Solderless Breadboard Kit
×1
Male/Female Jumper Wires
Male/Female Jumper Wires
×1
Amazon Alexa NTC Thermistor
×1
I2C 16x2 Arduino LCD Display Module
DFRobot I2C 16x2 Arduino LCD Display Module
(Optional)
×1

Software apps and online services

Particle Build Web IDE
Particle Build Web IDE
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Schematics

Schematic

This is how we connect all our components.

Code

Temperature Sensor Code

Arduino
This code takes the signal from an NTC Thermistor and calibrates it to display a temperature value.
// This #include statement was automatically added by the Particle IDE.
#include <LiquidCrystal.h>

// This #include statement was automatically added by the Particle IDE.
#include <ThingSpeak.h>

TCPClient client;

unsigned long myChannelNumber = 1249700;		/*Thingspeak channel id*/
const char * myWriteAPIKey = "JV9ZUGWBYLJHGBGL";/*Channel's write API key*/

#include <math.h>
LiquidCrystal lcd(12,11,5,4,3,2);
const int thermistor_output = A3;
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
//Connect to ThingSpeak
ThingSpeak.begin(client);
double temperature;
}

void loop() {
int thermistor_adc_val;
double output_voltage, thermistor_resistance, therm_res_ln, temperature;
thermistor_adc_val = analogRead(thermistor_output);
output_voltage = ((thermistor_adc_val * 3.3)/ 4095.0);
thermistor_resistance = ((3.3 * (10/output_voltage))-10);
thermistor_resistance = thermistor_resistance * 1000;
therm_res_ln = log(thermistor_resistance);
temperature = (1/(0.001129148 + (0.000234125 * therm_res_ln)+( 0.0000000876741 * therm_res_ln * therm_res_ln))); // solving for temp
temperature = temperature - 273.15;
temperature = ((temperature*1.8) + 32)-15;
ThingSpeak.setField(1,(float)temperature);
ThingSpeak.writeFields(myChannelNumber, myWriteAPIKey);
delay(120000);
Serial.print("Temperature=");
Serial.print(temperature);
Serial.print("\n\n");
lcd.begin(16,2); 
lcd.print("Temperature=");
lcd.print(temperature);
lcd.print("\n\n");
delay(1000);
}

Credits

Samantha Kovich

Samantha Kovich

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Asha McDougal

Asha McDougal

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