After yesterdays' crap weather report, it really brightened up by the end of the day. I had the car and drove home along the beach, was lovely and sunny but very windy, so loads of kite boarders about. The boy and I played out in the garden a bit when I got home.
I did a little more tinkering with the arduino and the LM35 looks like I got a short circuit when I soldered some wires on to the LM35 as I get a really high voltage out of the signal pin, roughly equivalent to the voltage in (and it should return a very low voltage that varies according to the temperature, that's the point of it). So I need to unsolder and do that again. Luckily the main thing I was hoping to do (having a power supply independent of the arduino and having a really long lead connecting it back in so I can put it in the bird house) is good. I read a guide on how to waterproof a temperature sensor1, seems most common sense really, not sure how much I can waterproof it without insulating it too much though.
The birds were back in the bird house today, with a big beak full of nesting material, so this means a) they are settling in and b) I won't be disturbing them by putting a temperature probe in there this year anyway. I'll figure out if it gets too hot by the number of dead baby birds I find in there later :-(
arduino: Microcontroller, hardware prototyping platform, a tiny specialised computer.
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