Comments on: Arduino-based Talking & Remote Thermometer

By: RobotGrrl

RobotGrrl — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:51:28 +0000

Woops- I am so silly

When BubbleBoy (my robot) first starts up, it callibrates the LDR by waiting 500ms in between each reading. It does that 5 times. 5*500ms != 3000ms

I changed the sleep time to 5s, and it no longer crashes now!

Yay for robots that are smarter than their humans! Hahahahaha

By: RobotGrrl

RobotGrrl — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:45:01 +0000

Very nice script!

How would I get it to loop? I added this..

if(sys.argv[3] == ‘-l’):
loop = True;

while loop == True:
NewTemp = obtaindata.ObtainTempData(ser) #Obtain a reading from the Arduino. Store in variable NewTemp
print ‘The current light is %s .\n’ %(NewTemp)
time.sleep(10)
continue

However it “crashes” on the 3rd repitition of the loop, with:

Invalid input recieved from terminal or serial port… Exiting…

Any ideas?

By: How-To: Remote temperature sensing with Arduino | SquareCows

How-To: Remote temperature sensing with Arduino | SquareCows — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:43:26 +0000

[...] an Arduino, thermistor, and a bit of software, Peter built a temperature sensor capable of reporting readings via Gmail, or even speech – After recently getting my hands on an [...]

By: How-To: Remote temperature sensing with Arduino - machine quotidien

How-To: Remote temperature sensing with Arduino - machine quotidien — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:31:04 +0000

[...] an Arduino, thermistor, and a bit of software, Peter built a temperature sensor capable of reporting readings via Gmail, or even speech – After recently getting my hands on an [...]

By: Arduino Fan

Arduino Fan — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:45:25 +0000

That’s brilliant mate! never would have thought about taking that approach. mind if I add you to the blogroll?

Regards

Peter

Yea no problem i will add you in mi 2 blogs too.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:58:46 +0000

Hi Jay,

No at the moment, but there is a promising looking piece of kit for the Arduino under development at http://tinkerkit.com/ which looks pretty comprehensive (loads of sensors, including thermistors.)

Regards

Peter

By: jay

jay — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:27:38 +0000

dude that is awesome is it avaliable in a ready to buy kit form for use in fridges when temp monitoring is hyper critical.ie where food or meds need to be kept at a certain temp range and we have to provide written data to say the ave temp was x or y on a daily or monthly or yearly basis .would be interested in building it my self if not available as a kit .thanks for the article ….genius ………………….jay

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:46:47 +0000

That’s brilliant mate! never would have thought about taking that approach. mind if I add you to the blogroll?

Regards

Peter

By: Arduino Fan

Arduino Fan — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:33:06 +0000

What about this.
http://arduinohnev.blogspot.com/2008/12/arduino-tempman.html

By: Querystring » Remote thermometer using Arduino

Querystring » Remote thermometer using Arduino — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:01:50 +0000

[...] sent in this writeup on how to build a remotely accessible thermometer. The hardware side is pretty easy on this one, all you need is an Arduino, a resistor and an [...]