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MONITORS THE SURROUNDING TEMPERATURE & HUMIDITY

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT: I made a device that monitors the surrounding temperature and humidity and sends an email when the temperature or humidity strays from a certain bound. This device will be used monitor the temperature and humidity of the lenses used in a quadrupole ion trap quantum computer.

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PROCEDURE The first time I managed to program the ESP-01. Here, I have it running the blink program.

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PROCEDURE Programming the ESP-01 through the Arduino so that it can send emails.

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PROCEDURE A close-up of the set-up for the email sender.

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PROCEDURE The final design. I added the DHT11 Temperature and Humidity sensor and a battery power source.

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PROCEDURE Testing if the device will send the email if when placed in an area with abnormally low temperature (the fridge).

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PROCEDURE Testing my device in a quantum lab.

I have placed my device right next to the lenses used in the quadrupole ion trap device

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PROCEDURE The device sending an email at the quantum lab.

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PROCEDURE Here is the most important portion of the code for my project. It is the loop that runs constantly as long as a power source is connected.

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PROJECT OVERVIEW: In response to the fine dust epidemic in South Korea, I decided to make a machine that analyzes the amount of dust in the air. This way, I would be able to check the dust levels wherever and whenever I want. For this project, I bought the Sharp Dust Sensor GP2Y1010AU.

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PROCEDURE Using an official tutorial for this project on the Arduino website, I wrote the code and made the circuit for reading the measurements of the GP2Y1010AU. However, when I ran contraptions, the sensor only outputted measurements of zero.

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PROCEDURE After spending a lot of time trying to find the flaw in my code or circuit, I realized that the actual problem was in the tutorial on the Arduino website. They had a mistake in their breadboard diagram.

Thus, I contacted the Arduino.org Support Team through email and got this error fixed.

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PROCEDURE After fixing this error, my contraption worked fine.

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PROCEDURE Here is how the GP2Y1010AU was connected to my Arduino Uno.

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PROCEDURE Then, I decided to upgrade my previous Dust Sensor design. I made it more portable and user-friendly by powering it with a battery and adding a 4-digit 7 segment display.

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PROCEDURE Using a used tissue box, scissors, and tape, I created a case for my device.

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PROCEDURE Here is an image of my contraption placed in the case.

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PROCEDURE Here is an image of my device with the case closed.

In this picture, it is displaying the dust level, as I have pressed down the pushbutton. The value projected on the 4-digit display is high, as I am passing smoke through the sensor opening.

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PROCEDURE Here is the most important portion of the code for my project. It is the loop that runs constantly as long the pushbutton is pressed.

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