Well I finally got some Dallas Semiconductor 1-Wire Tempature Sensors in. I quickly threw a bunch on the breadboard to see how accurate they are and stuffs, pretty nifty, 2 wires is all it takes, ignore the 3rd leg of the sensors it doesn’t do anything…
Breadboard + 1-Wire Temperature Sensors
I put white blocks in the picture because of the nonsense on the breadboard–it was just some toying of a segment display from awhile back…
I plan to use these sensors (along with many more) to build a weather station, and I’d like to place a few throughout the house to see the difference in tempature between the rooms. Would be intresting to see the temp difference between the outside, attic and home on a graph.
September 1st, 2008 at 12:24 pm
They could also be useful for the server room? Per rack temp monitors? Sweet!
September 1st, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Yes, you could do that as well. The much more powerful–much more expensive solution is APC NetBotz. I have like a dozen it’s an addiction.
This costs $20 bucks at the most to start, and about $3 bucks per sensor you add on. Assuming your Cat5 is free.