Temperature Shield Constructions and Testing

Created on: 30 October 2012

You will first need to build the Tiny Stripboard Shield for Arduino.

This video shows the construction of the temperature shield:

These photos show the finished shield in more detail:

Testing the Shield

After building the shield, load this test sketch to test the LEDs:

/*--------------------------------------------------------------
  Program:     temp_shield_LED_test

  Description:  Tests the 3 LEDs on the tiny stripboard
                temperature shield. Switches each LED on in
                turn.

  Date:         25 October 2012
 
  Author:       W.A. Smith, http://startingelectronics.org
--------------------------------------------------------------*/
void setup() {
    // set LED pins as outputs
    pinMode(2, OUTPUT);    // amber LED
    pinMode(4, OUTPUT);    // green LED
    pinMode(6, OUTPUT);    // red LED
}

void loop() {
    digitalWrite(2, HIGH);
    delay(1000);
    digitalWrite(2, LOW);
    digitalWrite(4, HIGH);
    delay(1000);
    digitalWrite(4, LOW);
    digitalWrite(6, HIGH);
    delay(1000);
    digitalWrite(6, LOW);
}

To test the MCP9700 temperature sensor, load the sketch from the Arduino serial thermometer tutorial.