Temperature Measurement Projects: Innovation in Heat Analysis

Quantitative Two-Dimensional Temperature Measurements

Temperature Measurement Projects / By Ibrar Ayyub

Lab Experiments involving the Heat Equation are usually one-dimensional exercises involving a copper pipe and a half-dozen thermocouples. But with DS18B20 “One-Wire” thermometer chips and an Arduino, it’s possible to measure hundreds of temperature values simultaneously. Here’s what my students Daniel Lund and Lawrence Lechuga and I came up with for 2-D temperature measurements. We

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Track Honeybees With Temperature

Temperature Measurement Projects / By Ibrar Ayyub

Data analysis coming soon! My school is kind of strange. We don’t have a cafeteria, but we do have a four week course on “The Simpsons.” We don’t have a jungle-gym on the elementary playground, but we do have a half-buried firetruck. We don’t have a football team, but we do have a bee-keeping club.

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Arduino Powered 3-zone thermostat

Temperature Measurement Projects / By Ibrar Ayyub

I was looking at all those swoopy-zoomy internet connected and controllable thermostats. “Self,” I told myself, “we should make one of those.” He didn’t seem all that excited about that – I mean, what do we know about hardware, firmware, electronics or HVAC? Well, now’s as good as any to figure it out. So without

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Arduino Automatic Temperature& Humidity Controller for Pets

Temperature Measurement Projects / By Ibrar Ayyub

Jack and Jose, a pair of beautiful hamster, has accompanied me over 100 days and nights. Their soft white fur makes me quiet and warm, especially when I coding in the winner. But the very tragic things happened in the last week. As the cold air from Siberia, Shenzhen has suffered low temperature and humidity

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DNA Melting Part 2: Lock-in Amplifier and Temperature Control

Temperature Measurement Projects / By Ibrar Ayyub

In Part 2 of the DNA Melting Lab you will make revisions to allow greater control of your instrument and to reduce the effects of noise. You will add a pulse-width modulation (PWM) heater controller to enable careful control of the heating and cooling rates of the DNA sample. This will allow you to maintain

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Programmable Temperature Controller + Hot Plate

Arduino Programmer Projects, Metering – Instrument Projects, Temperature Measurement Projects / By Ibrar Ayyub

Heating things up is one of the most performed tasks in a lab. Quite a lot of times it is not enough to simply hold something at a certain temperature, but the rate at which something is heated and for how long is just as important. Especially when you try to develop catalysts for chemical

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Thermal Camera

Temperature Measurement Projects, Video – Camera – Imaging Projects / By Ibrar Ayyub

Have you ever had the desire to see what can not be seen? I never had the ability to see in thermal infrared, and it is rather cool to be able to see in the thermal infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Unfortunately, most thermal (FLIR) cameras are very expensive. In 2011 cameras frequently cost

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Smart Thermal + Arduino

Temperature Measurement Projects / By Ibrar Ayyub

Many times we are faced with a heat containing coffee and don’t know if the fluid is at the proper temperature and it is impossible to know just by looking at the bottle ended up losing time with a coffee that is cold and we get upset about it. This however indicates maker by a

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*duino Keg Temp Monitor, or the Quest for the Perfect Pint

Temperature Measurement Projects / By Ibrar Ayyub

I was looking for a project that combined my three favorite things – working in my shop, building cool stuff for my bar and of course, drinking beer. After a couple of weeks in the old country drinking “the Guinness”, I decided my I’d put a keg of “Moothers’ milk” in my kegerator and prolong my vacation

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Arduino Time & Temp Display Shield

Temperature Measurement Projects / By Ibrar Ayyub

Another project I’m working on required a good timer, but the more I read about Arduino, I realized that I couldn’t make an accurate timer using an Arduino that was already devoted to other tasks. The Arduino will always lose time if you perform other tasks. The solution was a Real Time Clock module that keeps perfect

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