thegreathoe
Active Member
well it's only ugly until i get it all hidden away in some kind of box. so here it is currently scattered on my lil beer fridge:
it consists of:
1 x arduino *blueish thing in the center*
1 x serial lcd *green thing on bottom*
1 x sparkfun relay kit *red item towards the top*
2 x 1-wire thermometers
tons of misc. cabeling and a few resistors and such
this pic shows the nice basic readout i currently have set on the display... it tells me temp inside the fridge and if the fridge is switched on of off on the top line, and on the bottom line is shows the room temp. to the left of the wire monster, you see a cat6 jack that i have conveniently plugged into an old patch cable that i decided to splice my internal therm to. i have it currently set to turn on when > 44deg and off when <= 41deg.
the final pic shows the nice ghetto shrink tube job i did on the therm inside the fridge.. its just temp of course. well that's basically it for now... until i get it all cleaned up and in a box. the nice thing about this is if i want to add another fridge or like 10 more, its only gonna cost me about $7 in parts and a tiny bit more code to set up each.
total price into the project sofar:
arduino = 30ish i think... idk i had it laying around
terms = 3ish each
relay setup *= at max 10 for everyhting there
serial lcd = bout 25... you can go cheap here i jsut like teh ease of only needing 1 wire instead of a bunch.
other stuff = idk.. most was laring around
code to come in a sec:
EDIT!!! schematics are on page 3!!!!!!
it consists of:
1 x arduino *blueish thing in the center*
1 x serial lcd *green thing on bottom*
1 x sparkfun relay kit *red item towards the top*
2 x 1-wire thermometers
tons of misc. cabeling and a few resistors and such
this pic shows the nice basic readout i currently have set on the display... it tells me temp inside the fridge and if the fridge is switched on of off on the top line, and on the bottom line is shows the room temp. to the left of the wire monster, you see a cat6 jack that i have conveniently plugged into an old patch cable that i decided to splice my internal therm to. i have it currently set to turn on when > 44deg and off when <= 41deg.
the final pic shows the nice ghetto shrink tube job i did on the therm inside the fridge.. its just temp of course. well that's basically it for now... until i get it all cleaned up and in a box. the nice thing about this is if i want to add another fridge or like 10 more, its only gonna cost me about $7 in parts and a tiny bit more code to set up each.
total price into the project sofar:
arduino = 30ish i think... idk i had it laying around
terms = 3ish each
relay setup *= at max 10 for everyhting there
serial lcd = bout 25... you can go cheap here i jsut like teh ease of only needing 1 wire instead of a bunch.
other stuff = idk.. most was laring around
code to come in a sec:
EDIT!!! schematics are on page 3!!!!!!