I always wanted to build my own temperature logger and graph it in a display, so it was now or never! I had a couple of I2C temperature sensors lying around and also a serial EEPROM, so I hooked them all together, and voila voila!!
Time for details now! Sorted from fun to less fun :-)
- The data scrolls one pixel every 5 minutes, the LCD is 128 pixels wide I can display the temperature for the last 10.6 hours.
- The flat part of the graph is during the night, as you can see the thermostat is doing a great job at keeping a constant temperature!
- The non-flat part is during the day the sun enters through the windows and heats up the place. There is a small spike and that is because for while the sun hits directly the sensor.
- For the clock, I used the fact that I can drive one of the AVR's timers using an external oscillator, I used a 32.768MHz crystal this number is exactly 128*256, so you just have to set the timer's prescaler to 128 and you'll get a 8bit timer overflowing once a second. Se the timer to generate an interrupt at that point and that's it. Look at the Atmel's Butterfly source code for reference.
- Drawing the line was quite tricky, because the LCDs' framebuffer is not linear at all and also because I wanted to write up to 8 pixels with the same memory access. It was tricky but I made it, I'll probably post the code in another post.
- The rest is simple stuff, the temperature sensor is a LM75A, and the serial EEPROM is a 128Kb one.. both of them are controlled using and I2C bus, so piece of cake!
And now the full monty:
More details on demand, Thanks for reading!
Excellent,can you help me by supplying your code for KS108 on line graph.
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