This project was born out of my wonderful physics teacher's desire to intergrate ALP into his classes.
He had gotten himself a generic MAX6675-based K-Type Thermocouple kit off of Taobao so he could measure the live temperature of objects when doing heat-related topics, but could never find enough time to research and set up the whole contraption himself.
So, he approached me to help him with this.
I got it working fairly quickly, but it was quickly forgotten. (and somebody else ripped the whole thing apart!)
So, here I am, almost exactly a year later, documenting this, as my last gift to my school. (and bolstering my EAE)
Requirements:
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MAX6675 IC Breakout board
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K-Type Thermocouple
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An Arduino
(an Arduino Uno was used in the schematic but any should do, this only uses 261 bytes of RAM!)
Requirements:
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The code itself
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The Arduino
Instructions:
Navigate to the MAX6675 Library Github.
Clone or Download > Download as zip
Repeat the above steps for the code itself
Download the Arduino IDE.
Unzip the arduino IDE.
Launch the Arduino IDE.
Sketch > Include Library > Add .ZIP Library...
Select MAX6675-master.zip (the one you just downloaded)
File > Open > thermocouple\thermocouple.ino
Connect the Arduino
Check whether it's detected or not under
Tools > Port
(e.g COM3/GENUINO UNO)
Upload. (The arrow pointing left)
Open the serial monitor. Tools > Serial Monitor
At the bottom right, change 9600 baud to 19200 baud.
My wonderful Physics teacher!
Adafruit for wonderful documentation
GreatScott! for getting me interested in Arduinos
Do whatever you want, just make sure your modifications are open-source.