Venti - Smart Ventilation

This instructable is a step by step guide to make a ventilation system using Raspberry Pi. This was an assignment for school, I study MCT (Media and communication technology) at HOWEST Kortrijk, where we had to use at least 3 different sensors, an actuator and a display.

The ventilation measures the outside and inside temperature, the humidity and the percentage of light.
These data is sent to a database. The values are displayed on a small website I made where you can also add your preferences. The back-end is running on a Raspberry Pi.

• Raspberry Pi 3 B+ with power supply and SD-card
• 9V battery
• DHT11 humidity and temperature sensor
• 2 9V fans
• OLED display
• One wire temperature sensor
• L293D
• MCP3008
• Light dependent resistor
• Jumping wires (male-female and male-male)
• 4.7k Ohm resistor
• 10k Ohm resistor
• Breadboard
  
  Enclosure

• Multiplex (18mm and 3mm)
• Plexiglass (4mm)
• Screws
• Paint
• Wood glue
• Drills

More information in my Bill of Materials

This is the circuit for my project. It contains a lot of wires but it is not that difficult to build.
Make sure to enable the following interfaces on your Raspberry Pi

• SPI: for MCP
• I2C: for OLED display

I used the following libraries:

• DHT library: https://learn.adafruit.com/dht
  (Note: This sensor is not really precisely, if you need it to be, I would recommend looking for an other kind.)
• L293D library: https://l293d.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user-guide/installation/
• Install the Adafruit_SSD1306 library from packages
• Install the Adafruti_DHT library from packages

After making the circuit, I started building the enclosure. I wanted to put everything in a miniature kitchen. I used MDF 3mm, 18mm and plexiglass 4mm. I made a lot of holes with a drill to put the cables through.

The sketch was made on a scale of 1:3 cm and 1 box has a length of 0,5cm for a reference.

I used this database for the code I link in the next step. It was made with MySQL and hosted on Raspberry Pi with MariaDB.

I put all the code in one github repository, you can find the front-end as well as the back-end over there.
Code: My github repository or download and unzipped the files I uploaded here.