Arduino LCD Thermometer

Hey guys this is Gaige TheEngineer here to give you a basic arduino project: The Arduino LCD thermometer

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This simple Project Requires A couple thing You might have if you have the arduino kits or parts.

Components

• Arduino Uno R3
• Jumpers
• LCD Liquid Crystal Display 16x2
• Potentiometer
• LM36Gz
• Bread Board, or PCB if your making this permanent( but I recommend bread board prototype first!)
• 9V Power Source

LCD Pins connections:

Pin 1 to Arduino GND

Pin 2 to Arduino 5V

Pin 3 to wiper ( this is the middle pin of the 10k potentiometer )

Pin 4 to Arduino pin 12

Pin 5 to Arduino GND

Pin 6 to Arduino pin 11

Pin 11 to Arduino pin 5

Pin 12 to Arduino pin 4

Pin 13 to Arduino pin 3

Pin 14 to Arduino pin 2

The Temperature Sensor is easy: Just connect the Middle To Arduino Analog Pin A0

and the Positive to one side and negative to the other. CAUTION IF YOU CONNECT THE GND AND + PINS WRONG ON THE TEMP SENSOR IT WILL GET VERY HOT> USE AT YOUR OWN RISK AND YOU WILL BREAK THE SENSOR.

The temp sensor isn't shown on the picture.

Here is the code.

Author: Gaige Kerns

Author:       Gaige Kerns
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#include 
// Arduino pins used for LCD
LiquidCrystal lcd(12, 11, 5, 4, 3, 2);
void setup() {
    // initialize the LCD display
    lcd.begin(16, 2);
}
void loop() {
    float temperature = 0.0;   // stores the calculated temperature
    int sample;                // counts through ADC samples
    float ten_samples = 0.0;   // stores sum of 10 samples
  
    // take 10 samples from the MCP9700
    for (sample = 0; sample < 10; sample++) {
        // convert A0 value to temperature
        temperature = ((float)analogRead(A0) * 5.0 / 1024.0) - 0.5;
        temperature = temperature / 0.01;
        // sample every 0.1 seconds
        delay(100);
        // sum of all samples
        ten_samples = ten_samples + temperature;
    }
    // get the average value of 10 temperatures
    temperature = ten_samples / 10.0;
    // display the temperature on the LCD
    lcd.setCursor(0, 0);
    lcd.print(temperature);
    lcd.print(" deg. C  ");
    ten_samples = 0.0;
}