Arduino Weather Station using DHT11 - Electronics-Lab
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Arduino Weather Station using
DHT11
Introduction
Using a display to view the temperature and humidity of your environment can
be possible using the DHT11 or DHT22 sensor with the easy to use Arduino
microcontroller platform and that's the goal of this project. For this project, we
will be using the 162 LCD display module to display the temperature and
humidity readings gathered from the environment using the DHT11 temperature
and humidity sensor.
Project Parts
The components/parts needed for this tutorial are:
The DHT11 is a low cost temperature and humidity sensor that operates using
the 1-wire protocol, costs about $2.DHT11 Tempereature and Humidity Sensor
This sensor has three pins, the first pin is the power
signal out or DATA pin and the last pin is GND.
in VCC, the middle pin is the
Although the DHT11 temperature and humidity sensor isn’t the fastest
temperature and humidity sensor around, it has fair level of accuracy, +-5% for
humidity readings and +-2% for temperature readings. With the DHT we will be
able to measure temperature and humidity of the environment with a very fair
degree of accuracy.
The LCD Keypad shield makes connecting the 16x2 LCD module to any system
quite easy as it simply just plugs on the Arduino mega which is being used for
this project.LCD keypad shield
An ordinary 16x2 LCD module (not shield) can also be used. Just ensure the pins
are connected as described in the code and schematic below.
Schematic
Connect the LCD and the DHT11 sensor as shown in the image below.
CX) (MEGA
Arduino
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Schematics
Putting the component together is very easy if using the LCD keypad shield, All
you just need to do is plug the LCD in as shown below and connect the DHT as
described in the schematics above.