LED + Temperature Monitoring

This project comes with GUI is Microsoft C# and sketch code for Arduino.

Basically, it has a GUI to turn ON and OFF the LED and a temperature button to check the surrounding temperature.

Step 1: Parts

1 unit of Arduino UNO

1 unit of LED (Digital pin 13)

1 unit of LM35 (Analog A0 pin)

1 unit of resistor 47k Ohm

Jumpers

Step 2: How It Works: Arduino

Write the Arduino code based on Serial Communication.

Simple reading and select instruction.

Sample part of Arduino Code:

void loop(){

reading = analogRead(tempPin);

tempC = reading/9.31;

}

** This part simply means the temperature reading will keep on updating/ looping

void ParseCommand(String command){

if(command == commandToggle){

if(ToggleLED()){

Serial.println("Toggled LED");

}

else

{

Serial.println("Error Toggling LED");

}

}

else if (command == commandStatus)

{

GetLEDStatus();

Serial.println(LEDStatus);

}

else if

(command == commandTemp){

Serial.println(tempC);

}

else

{

Serial.println("Unrecognized Command");

}

}

**This part means that the command selected from the GUI if it matches the above, it will triggered.

Step 3: How It Works: Visual C#

Visual C# is used to produce User interface for this project.

public bool toggleLED()
{

try

{

serialPort1.Open();

serialPort1.Write("toggle" + "\n");

String status = serialPort1.ReadLine();

serialPort1.Close();

return true;

}

catch (System.Exception ex)

{

System.Console.WriteLine("Error toggling LED " + ex);

}

return false;

}

**This part of source code is used to read LED status (ON or OFF or Error)

public string getTemp()

{ // get the LED status from the arduino

try

{

serialPort1.Open();

serialPort1.Write("temp" + "\n");

String temp = serialPort1.ReadLine();

serialPort1.Close();

return temp;

}

catch (System.Exception ex)

{

System.Console.WriteLine("Error getting status " + ex);

}

return "ERROR";

}

**This part of source code is used to read temperature from LM35 (Readings in Celcius or Error)

Step 4: Final

This is simple project. Just a simple modification it can leads to bigger things or gadget.

Try and enjoy it, modify it to become better end product.

The Visual C# & Arduino source code is available at the attachment