Beautifully Finished Humidity and Temperature Sensor

We built a stylish and useful humidity and temperature sensor for our home workshop that uses color to alert us to big swings in humidity.

Mar 26, 2018

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Components and supplies

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Arduino UNO

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Jumper wires (generic)

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Breadboard (generic)

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NeoPixel Ring: WS2812 5050 RGB LED

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DHT22 Temperature Sensor

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4xAA battery holder

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Adafruit 1.44" Color TFT LCD Display with MicroSD Card breakout - ST7735R

Tools and machines

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Soldering iron (generic)

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Hot glue gun (generic)

Project description

Code

Arduino Work Shop Sensor Code

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Arduino Work Shop Sensor Code

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Downloadable files

Picture of Actual Setup

Picture of Actual Setup

Schematic

Fritzing didn't have most of the actual components so I did my best to represent the flow of things.

Schematic

Picture of Actual Setup

Picture of Actual Setup

Documentation

Arduino Work Shop Sensor Plans

Arduino Work Shop Sensor Plans

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Arduino Work Shop Sensor Plans

Arduino Work Shop Sensor Plans

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Comments

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toribishop10

2 years ago

Is there a way to see the junction box better. I'm terrible with breadboards, and this has been the part holding me up.

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Anonymous user

2 years ago

So I m planning on recreating your project for a school project and I was wondering if the MicroSD Card Reader on the back of the LCD screen was important or needed for the project to work. The one I order is the same but doesn't have the MicroSD Card Reader. So if you can respond ASAP that would be great.

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WickedMakers

2 years ago

Hi Jarrett. The lcd screen can draw fonts/text but the quality wasn’t as good as I wanted so we used the microSd card to store bitmap images of each number. Now instead of drawing text, it loads an image for each number and displays it. Not entirely necessary but I thought it looked better than just drawing the numbers with the font library. Good luck!

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tylerpeppy

2 years ago

That is a pretty cool project!

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WickedMakers

2 years ago

Thanks!

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Anonymous user

2 years ago

What a beautiful piece of art! Thanks for such a detailed video.

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WickedMakers

2 years ago

Thanks Jessica!

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Anonymous user

2 years ago

how did it measure humidity? I really find this cool and I hope to recreate this for our science fair. I am a high school student and is still learning about the basics of computer science. Thanks in advance!

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Anonymous user

2 years ago

This is just gorgeous! I can’t wait to try this with my kids over the summer. They’re going to go crazy over your logo alone, so I’d better start now to design a silhouette that will capture the same kind of awesome that your device projects!

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WickedMakers

2 years ago

:D Thanks! And that is super exciting. Send us a photo of the project if make one!

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exoticrobotics77156

2 years ago

Hi! This is an amazing project and I planning to do this in the future! Can you please send me a full list of the materials for this project? When I looked in the list above it did not show the full thing and kept on getting cut off.

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Anonymous user

2 years ago

I really like the logo, could you please share the sketch/CAD file or something? That would be great. It will be only used for copying this project at home

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WickedMakers

2 years ago

Hi sugano23, we can’t share the logo files unfortunately. Thanks though and glad you like it!

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Anonymous user

2 years ago

I love your project!! We are having an hackster online contest calling for environmental projects, i would like to invite you to submit this amazing project to get involved: https://www.hackster.io/contests/SeeedEarthDay

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Anonymous user

2 years ago

I wanted to say this is an awesome project and I wish I could have had the chance to recreate it for myself. Please know I make no accusations to the creators of this project in any way shape or form I only wish to bring it to their attention and the attention of Instructables. I tried to download this project to make it for my own workroom. Unfortunately, it is unavailable to download a single file like before in PDF format. I now must download multiple files. I do not feel that is correct considering the last time I downloaded a file from Instructables it was only 1 file for the project. To make subscribers download multiple files in the world today is opening the doors for trouble considering the fact that during the attempt to download the files the instructable website was flagged by my antivirus as a bad site because it found trojans attached or in the files for this project. I in no way make any accusations to the creators of this project. I only wish to bring it to the attention of the creators and maybe Instructables as well. This is the first download of any project off the Instructables website since December of 2016.

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WickedMakers

2 years ago

Hi there, not sure what you mean since there’s nothing to download. Thanks though!

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Anonymous user

2 years ago

This is amazing! I think what I might do is take this idea and have it run two screens. One run as a clock, and the other one that shows temperature have it connected to the internet so it gets not my room temp, but the actual outside temp along with the weather! I'll have to figure this out haha but I love the idea!

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WickedMakers

2 years ago

Nice! Great idea. :) Send us a pic if you build it, would love to see the idea come to life.

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Anonymous user

2 years ago

hello please give me this project's 3D printer files please

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WickedMakers

2 years ago

Hi Ugur, we can't give out the exact files since this is our logo but any similar sized 3D print will also look really good. :)

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Anonymous user

2 years ago

Thank you

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henriquebg

2 years ago

Beautiful handwork, really nice to see the whole sotry in the video.

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WickedMakers

2 years ago

Thank you!

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sandromesquitamecatronica

2 years ago

Very beautiful..I going to share with my students.

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Anonymous user

2 years ago

I like the design of the box and face of the box. I was wondering if it the humidity display could be done with two 7 segment displays.

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Anonymous user

3 years ago

how did it measure humidity? I really find this cool and I hope to recreate this for our science fair. I am a high school student and is still learning about the basics of computer science. Thanks in advance!

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Anonymous user

5 years ago

Dear i am facing this error cactus_io_DHT22.h: No such file or directory

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sandromesquitamecatronica

6 years ago

Very beautiful..I going to share with my students.

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Anonymous user

7 years ago

I like the design of the box and face of the box. I was wondering if it the humidity display could be done with two 7 segment displays.

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Anonymous user

7 years ago

So I m planning on recreating your project for a school project and I was wondering if the MicroSD Card Reader on the back of the LCD screen was important or needed for the project to work. The one I order is the same but doesn't have the MicroSD Card Reader. So if you can respond ASAP that would be great.

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WickedMakers

2 years ago

Hi Jarrett. The lcd screen can draw fonts/text but the quality wasn’t as good as I wanted so we used the microSd card to store bitmap images of each number. Now instead of drawing text, it loads an image for each number and displays it. Not entirely necessary but I thought it looked better than just drawing the numbers with the font library. Good luck!

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Anonymous user

7 years ago

I love your project!! We are having an hackster online contest calling for environmental projects, i would like to invite you to submit this amazing project to get involved: https://www.hackster.io/contests/SeeedEarthDay

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sugano23

7 years ago

I really like the logo, could you please share the sketch/CAD file or something? That would be great. It will be only used for copying this project at home

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WickedMakers

2 years ago

Hi sugano23, we can’t share the logo files unfortunately. Thanks though and glad you like it!

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Mousepotato

7 years ago

I wanted to say this is an awesome project and I wish I could have had the chance to recreate it for myself. Please know I make no accusations to the creators of this project in any way shape or form I only wish to bring it to their attention and the attention of Instructables. I tried to download this project to make it for my own workroom. Unfortunately, it is unavailable to download a single file like before in PDF format. I now must download multiple files. I do not feel that is correct considering the last time I downloaded a file from Instructables it was only 1 file for the project. To make subscribers download multiple files in the world today is opening the doors for trouble considering the fact that during the attempt to download the files the instructable website was flagged by my antivirus as a bad site because it found trojans attached or in the files for this project. I in no way make any accusations to the creators of this project. I only wish to bring it to the attention of the creators and maybe Instructables as well. This is the first download of any project off the Instructables website since December of 2016.

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WickedMakers

2 years ago

Hi there, not sure what you mean since there’s nothing to download. Thanks though!

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Anonymous user

7 years ago

What a beautiful piece of art! Thanks for such a detailed video.

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WickedMakers

2 years ago

Thanks Jessica!

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Leggo0

7 years ago

This is amazing! I think what I might do is take this idea and have it run two screens. One run as a clock, and the other one that shows temperature have it connected to the internet so it gets not my room temp, but the actual outside temp along with the weather! I'll have to figure this out haha but I love the idea!

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WickedMakers

2 years ago

Nice! Great idea. :) Send us a pic if you build it, would love to see the idea come to life.

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Anonymous user

7 years ago

This is just gorgeous! I can’t wait to try this with my kids over the summer. They’re going to go crazy over your logo alone, so I’d better start now to design a silhouette that will capture the same kind of awesome that your device projects!

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WickedMakers

2 years ago

:D Thanks! And that is super exciting. Send us a photo of the project if make one!

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UGUR_GUNEYSU

7 years ago

hello please give me this project's 3D printer files please

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UGUR_GUNEYSU

2 years ago

Thank you

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WickedMakers

2 years ago

Hi Ugur, we can't give out the exact files since this is our logo but any similar sized 3D print will also look really good. :)

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henriquebg

7 years ago

Beautiful handwork, really nice to see the whole sotry in the video.

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WickedMakers

2 years ago

Thank you!

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tylerpeppy

7 years ago

That is a pretty cool project!

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WickedMakers

2 years ago

Thanks!