phirephly built a thermocouple with USB and serial interface:
This is a device that takes a thermocouple temperature input, converts it into a digital value, and then spits out the temperature on a serial port, which you can then feed into a computer, or another microcontroller. This is a useful device for any time when you want to be able to monitor or log a temperature.
Via the forum.
I see something I made! Horray!
Thanks for the feature. I finally put together a code repo for it: http://code.google.com/p/serialcouple/
Also, another free PCB build: http://i.imgur.com/gXmtW.jpg
I get my PICKit next week for my birthday, so we’ll finally find out if all this equipment I’ve been building actually works.
I’m happy to see this new thermocouple chip being put to use! I posted here back on 23 April 2011 about this new part. At that time the parts were still not available. See here:
http://dangerousprototypes.com/2011/04/23/max31855-cold-junction-compensated-thermocouple-to-digital-converter/
DP – Please clean-up the tags so the current post and my older post meet. This should happen automatically.
Best Regards, David in Jakarta