Build an Iot Wireless meat thermometer
You’ll go step-by-step through a prototyping design process. We’ll go from an idea in your head, to building out a specification, to planning an algorithm, transforming equations into code, and writing code to interface with the popular IoT cloud service Blynk.
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What will I learn?
- A prototyping process
- Drawing out a rough design
- Putting it to words
- Creating specifications
- Writing code for sensing temperature with a thermistor
- Determining temperature coefficients for your specific meat probe
- Implementing the Steinhart-Hart equation into code
- Writing user defined functions to read and transform the temperature signal
- Learning the fundamentals of the Blynk Arduino Library and iOS/Android phone app
- Establishing a WiFi connection
- Sending data from your hardware to your phone
- Sending data from your phone to your hardware
- Creating phone notifications based on hardware state
- Combining temperature code with Blynk Arduino code
- Integrating Blynk Library code into the temperature code
Prerequisites
The course assumes you have some of the Arduino “know how” you would gain from the Arduino Course for Absolute Beginners (we make references back to specific lessons in the PEA training library if you need a refresher!)
Required Hardware
As part of this course, you'll be deciding which components are best for your specific prototype.
- Adafruit Feather HUZZAH ESP8266
- Lithium Ion Polymer Battery w/ JST connector
- Meat Temperature Probe
- Breadboard Friendly Audio Connector Jack
- Proto-Board
- Resistor(s) for Voltage Divider
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Course Description
You’ll go step-by-step through a prototyping design process. We’ll go from an idea in your head, to building out a specification, to planning an algorithm, transforming equations into code, and writing code to interface with a popular IoT cloud service.
When you finish this course, you’ll have the skills and the confidence to develop a project that can communicate wirelessly with your phone, using open source code libraries with Blynk IoT applications.
This is our first “Project Walkthrough”, but this IS NOT a cut and paste Arduino project! You’ll be guided through building this project, expected to reflect as you design, code, and be challenged along the way.
We would love it if at the end of this course you have built this wireless project, but the goal isn’t so much this project, but the skills you’ll have acquired when you’ve completed the training.
Course Outline
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