Demonstration/Materials

This is a list of everything you will need to build your own LED Color Thermometer, and bellow that step by step instructions
for completing the build.

Materials:

                               Arduiono Uno
                                MLX90614ESF-DAA-ND Sensor
                               SML-LX1610RGBW/A RGB LED
                               3021-A-I-350 LED Supply x3
                               "Wire Black, Red, Green, Blue, White"
                               "saudering gun"
                                "sauder"
                               Shoes Box
                               Toilet paper tube
                               computer
                               USB Arduino Connector
                               4.7K Ohm resistor x2
                               9 volt battery with connectors x4
                               Breadboard
                               0.1 μF capacitor
                               Black Spray Paint
                               Heat sink for LED
                               Glue
                               Wire cutters
                               Knife

Downloads:

I2Cmaster.zip-library for reading the sensor
thermophoto.ino-script to run on arduion

Step by step for do it yourself:

1. Lets start by assempling the following circuit!

                      For now just build this on the breadboard.

                         2. Now for the LED setup. This one is a touch more complicated and requires the use of a saudering gun.
                            Here is a picture of how to sauder the LED/buck puck cercuit.

                         Connect the Red, Green and Blue signal wires to arduino ports, 9, 10 and 11 respectivly and the ground to the same ground as the                         arduino on your bread board.



                         3. Now lets get this thing running!
                            Place the file called I2Cmaster (found after downloading and unziping from the link provided) in Arduino/libraries.
                            Save thermophoto.ino as a sketch.

                            Connect the four 9V bateries

                             a) Plug the arduino into a USB port.
                             b) Open thermophoto.ino in arduino and upload it to the device, by clicking the button in the top left of the tool bar, (kinda like a                                     play button).
                             c) Stick your hand infrot of the sensor, and if all has been done correctly the light should go red!
                             If you want to see a running descriptor of the temperature, open the Serial Monitor (located at the far right of the toolbar).

                            *Bateries must be fully charged! Beware this device chews through the bateries!*
                         4. Housing the device is a mater of prefrence. Here is how I did it.
                            -Spray paint the shoebox and toilet paper tube, black.
                            -Glue the toilit paper tube over the LED on the heat sink.
                            -Cut hole in shoe box and put tube through the hole.
                            -Cut a small whole in the box nex to the LED tube so that the wires of the sensor may lead back into the box.

                            -Glue the breadbored to the bottom of the Shoebox and tape baterries down aswell so that they do not move.

                             DONE!

                         This Guid is incomplete, if you have any questions please                  contact me personaly and I would be glad to help!