Temp. Sensor Display on LCD W/ Arduino

What it basically does:

This arduino project detects the temperature from the temperature sensor. Obviously when it detects the temperature it displays it on the serial monitor, which I personally think is very inconvenient. Now to solve that I have added an LCD and now instead of displaying the temperature on the serial monitor as usual, it displays it on the LCD.

Step 1: Materials That You WILL Need:

• Arduino Uno or SparkFun Redboard
• Breadboard
• Temperature Sensor
• LCD
• Potentiometer
• 19 Jumper Wires

Step 2: Start Wiring!

Step 3: All You Have to Do Now Is Code!

BTW: If you don't live in America then you should probably change the code to calculate the temperature in Celcius

Comments

[olsencnc]

I'm a newbie. The question I have is would a significant amount of length on the wires that go to the sensor, mess with the readings? I was thinking about using this to monitor the temperature inside an antenna where the unun transformer is. I want to see how many watts I can put through it before it starts to get too hot, causing SWR to fluctuate. I would like to place the sensor in the box where the toroid is located and run about 20 feet of wire back to my radio where I can monitor the temp. Thanks for your help!

[livean]

Thank you

[Kishor_inov_IND]

what does an potentiometer does?

[Digital Electronics Circuits Lab]

well very nice instructable. You have taken 5.0 V as reference voltage for the temp sensor. How much accuracy are you getting with that?

[da_sreester]

Thanks! I think its a really good temp. sensor, and the results are pretty sccurate.

[braytonlarson]

Seems like a very incomplete instructable, at least very barebones. What temperature sensor did you use? Was it a Dallas sensor or..?

[da_sreester]

Sorry about that, Im still very new to instructables. Anyways the temperature sensor that I used is called a a TMP36(Precision Temperature Sensor)