LordUbuntu / tarantula-ir

An infrared sensor for a tarantula research project in Peru (Nicholas Sakish)

Tarantula IR Sensor

This is an Arduino Nano project done for Nicholas Sakish. The goal was to create a device which measures the infrared temperature of an object from a distance and logs the temperature and time data every minute to a microSD card.

Code

Source Code

See the src/ directory in this repository.

Dependencies

• Adafruit_BusIO
• Adafruit_MLX90614
• DS3231
• SD

Hardware

If you want to make a similar project here are the components and schematic to do so.

Components

• Arduino Nano V3
• DS3231 RTC
• MLX90614ESF-BAA IR Thermometer
• ADA254 MicroSD Card Breakout
• TPS61023 MiniBooster 5V@1A
• Adafruit Class 4 MicroSD cards (<= 128MB)

Schematic