Processing and Arduino to display room temperature

Hi

I've just started using the Arduino board in the last few month and I really enjoy it. I've little experience with electronics but I'm a professional programmer so I love the way I can leverage one interest to help me learn another.

This weekend I completed my first real project. I've built a simple thermometer that talks to my PC. A program written in Processing displays the reading on my screen. Not exactly cutting edge but I was really happy with it.

I've written a blog article about it, at http://mooeymoomoo.blogspot.com/. Let me know what you think.

Cheers.

Michael

Yes, Arduino is a lot of fun. "Processing" is pretty awesome too. I couldn't believe how easy it was to interface with Arduino:

Maybe you can graph your room temperature throughout the day. :slight_smile:

Hi Hari

Thanks for the reply. Yes, that's a good idea. I think I'll give that a try.

Michael

@moo - you did a very good write up and a good explanation of what/why you did things. I had just found Processing and was not at all familiar with it, now I understand a bit better.

You did good..... maybe break some of those long text sections into paragraphs to provide a bit of space in the thoughts?

I especially do like the way you took it from version 1 with it's problems, to the final solution. I will be following your blog - and maybe try that same thing. I've a temp sensor set up on a breadboard that displays to a LCD, but it would be neat to display to computer screen also.

I also understood more about use of "delay" vs "millis" and why to use one other the other.

Ken H>

Hi KenH

Many thanks for those kind words. Quite right about the paragraph length. That's a hard one to get right. I think I'll edit it tonight to break them up. I was so excited when I'd finished the project that I rattled the blog off in no time.

Michael