CE-351 Microcontrollers, 2022 Spring
IoT Temperature Monitor
Name: Mychael Garcia
Email: mhgarcia@fortlewis.edu

Materials: Product design and GUI features
In this project, we were to design a simple temperature device that could send data over the internet to a webpage. In addition, we need to have the capability to change/edit the current network connection (network and password). This will be done by using a simple interface menu.


Task 1:
For the first task, we needed to test the OLED screen and its functionality. Connecting the screen, we sent a simple program that would display fonts and the sizes, some images, and a simple snowflake falling animation.
text    snow

Task 2:
After the screen functionality was confirmed, we add the temperature probe. This probe uses the One Wire protocol to communicate temperature readings to the ESP. The current temp was then sent to the OLED screen to be displayed.
temp
 
Task 3:
Using the temperature probe and the display we wanted to add an additional way to log and visualize the data. The display would print real time but to monitor changes/trends we added Wi-Fi functionality to the device so it would send the current reading to the display and Thing Speak. This is a simple website that is used to graph data using wireless communication.
IoT

Task 4:
After the whole system was working, we wanted to make it more user friendly. This was done by creating a simple interface with multiple menus to chose from. They could change the Wi-Fi password if needed, same with the current access point. This was done by creading multiple if statements where the arduino would be constantly looking for rotary encoder updates and if it got one would display thoes chonges. after getting to each subset menu the cursor (box outline) was placed at an initial location and would move a single place if a rotation was noticed. This idea was continued for each sub menue. The hardest to get running was the password edit one. I had to build an imaginary grid for the curser to move on but not having options to move up and down between rows was an issue. This was solved by usng and overflow value where if the scrol position was attemting to move off the scread it would reset either up or down from the previous row. One unique feature i added was current displays of user input. As you type the pasword you can see in real time the characters you are currently selecting. Additionaly once you leave the main temperature display screen the current wi-fi connection will be displayed above the menue options. A link to my code can be found here.


PCB:
After the full system was running on the bread board We were tasked with making a final product on a PCB. As the ESP-32 already has the build in oscilator and power management we just need to add headers for the 3 devices (temp sensor, OLED screen, aand rotary encoder). To power the system I used the same schematic from the power supply lab but only the 3.3V 3A connection as thats what each device uses. The link to my PCB file can be found here.
layoutPCB

PCB Testing:
Once we got the PCB back, we wanted to make sure they functioned as intended, just like our testing using the breadboards. One issue that I found was that the En pin (3rd from the top on the left column) and IO0 pin (bottom on the right column) were not connected as they should have been. With this fix as seen below using the yellow wire the system performed as intended.
boardWire



Conclusion:
Overall this was a very useful and interesting project. It was good to lear about how we can send data using wi-fi and have it displayed so people can visualize it in real time, also trends. Knowing that we can send data we could easily change this design to send more than just temperatures, any sensor we want could be attached and processed the same way.
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