Beginning Arduino Programming

Project 6: Ambient Temps

This project will provide a visual indication of the ambient temperature in our immediate location by pairing a simple temperature sensor with an RGB LED. You might want to embed this project in a glass jar, a lamp, or other object. When it gets hot, our LED will fade to a deep red color; when it's cold, a deep blue color; and when the temperature is about right, the LED will change to green, with all of the colors possible between the two extremes. To make this work, we are going to need more complex color-mixing than we have done previously with seven colors. Rather than make our lives more difficult than they need to be, we will replace our RGB LED with the BlinkM MinM smart LED for this project. The BlinkM is an RGB ...