ENGR351 Lab 2020 Fall
Homework 2 - ATMEGA328 Advanced Applications
Name:
Ryan Jeanes
Email: rejeanes@fortlewis.edu

Uploading Data to Thingspeak
Introduction

In any scientific field, the ability to gather data for analysis is of utmost importance, and there are many different kinds of sensors and instrumentation that allows us to so. Here we are using two Arduino Nanos, a temperature sensor, and a wifi module that will allow us to gather data to send to Thingspeak for storage and analysis.

Materials and Methods

A breadboard circuit was created using two Arduino Nanos in master/slave configuration, communicating through SPI. The Master nano recorded temperatures through the DS18B20 Dallas Temperature sensor, displayed this on an Adafruit SSD1306 OLED module, and send the sensor data to the slave nano, which used an ESP8266 module to connect to Thingspeak for data upload.

Results
The OLED and DS18B20 were tested and worked properly. A second nano had to be introduced because the SSD1306 OLED display() function was not compatible with the ESP8266 code. The final breadboard design worked, and succesfully uploaded data to Thingspeak as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 1 OLED Test
Figure 1 - OLED module test

Figure 2 DS18B20 sensor test
Figure 2 - DS18B20 sensor and OLED module test

Figure 3 - Data uploaded to Thingspeak
Figure 3 - Data uploaded to thingspeak using ESP8266

Figure 4 - Final breadboard circuit
Figure 4 - Final breadboard circuit

Discussion
The final breadboard design was able to record temperatures, display on the OLED, and upload the temperatures to Thingspeak using the ESP8266 module.