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@Jaydenjiang on Info Buddy · 23 days ago

Hello! I made a small device that presents information right at your desk. These include time, date, humidity, and temperature in both Celsius and Farhneit.

Since this is one of the first actual Arduino Projects that I made myself, learning the functions of different libraries were challenging. But the hardest part was figuring how to switch between the different info screens. I ended up with a potentiometer due to its simplicity, unlike the button and rotary encoder which required harder coding.

Something im proud of is the design. It uses one strip of cardboard since it's bent around the sensors and wires.

If people would like to build the project themselves, I would recommend setting up the positive and negative rails on the breadboard due to the amount of sensors and screens that require power.

Thank you for reading!

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@Jaydenjiang on Info Buddy · 23 days ago

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this is a combination of two days. First was all of the sensors and basic code. I used: a DHT11 for the temperature and humidity, an RTC module for time and date (I didn’t use its temperature function), Arduino Nano ESP as the microcontroller, 0.96 OLED as the screen, a lot of wires, and used Arduino IDE for the code. After I got the screen to display the information (temperature, time, date, etc) I needed a way for the person to easily switch between the screens. Therefore, I used a potentiometer and the map function to switch between it. I used a potentiometer rather than a button and rotary encoder because it was simple to install. Then, I used cardboard for the housing. I cut where it needed to be bent and cutouts for the OLED screen and potentiometer knob. After that, I used a mini breadboard as the base for the potentiometer because it was sturdy for it to turn. Then, I added some decoration such as TV atennas.