After extensive troubleshooting and testing of our wifi shield, we’re starting to believe it’s faulty. This is the risk of working with hardware! If the shield fails the last round of tests David gives it today, our plan of action is to return the shield and order a new shield which qualifies for fast shipping. […]

In the process of working on our webserver design, we’ve have a few mockups made to direct us.   Here’s a rough draft of the logo design we’ve selected for the website:   And here is a mockup of our website layout (the large box at the top being where the thermometer logo will be).

We will be using this web server code to help us gain direction for our own! /* WiFi Web Server A simple web server that shows the value of the analog input pins. using a WiFi shield. This example is written for a network using WPA encryption. For WEP or WPA, change the Wifi.begin() call […]

3.25 11:30am In Attendance: Dani,  David, Devin, Vic, Ashish Summary of Last Meeting: At our last meeting we decided that our meat thermometer would not calculate the time remaining for a meat to be done cooking. Instead our application will output the percentage of time remaining until the user should remove the meat from the […]

What a great day! We’ll be meeting tomorrow, 12pm, at David’s house to begin putting things together! Let’s be sure to take photos of the process for the blog.

–and waiting for the wifi shield to arrive!

PART                                                             COST (estimate based on research) —————————————————————————————- Thermistor                                                $10-20 Audio Jack                                                 Already procured. Resistor(s)                                                 Already procured. Alligator Clamp Connectors               Already procured. WiFi Shield                                                $55 – $86 (there are options in between these ranges as well.) Arduino unit                                              Already procured — 2 uno, 1 duemillenove.  

An arduino BBQ thermometor project which we can modify for our usage (re: connecting thermistor and translating voltage to temp). The wikipedia article on Thermistors.

Algorithm — no progress since last meeting. By next Thurs, David is going to have read up on heat transfer (linking those materials to Devin for her reading as well) and prepared psuedocode with Devin for presentation. Devin has researched how people measure temperature change and mass but had poor luck; will research heat transfer […]