Category Archive: 1-Wire

Jun 19

Waterproof DS18B20 probe at Adafruit

As luck would have it, about a week or two after building the DS18B20 temperature probe from scratch since I didn’t want to wait for it to ship from China, Adafruit has added a similar probe to their product lineup. The Adafruit probe looks very similar to the Arduino-Direct one, but Adafruit is US based …

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Jun 06

DS18B20 Temperature Probe

Drilling out the casing

Although the form factor for the DS18B20 1-Wire sensor boxes I built for the Easy Arduino 1-Wire Sensor Network are relatively small my friend thought an even smaller probe type version would be nice to have for using in places where the phone jack box would be too obtrusive. It would also be nice to …

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Apr 21

First SMT solder job

SMT DS2438A

I am working on a new sensor for my 1-Wire network using the Maxim DS2438A, which is only available in the SOIC-8 package. I haven’t done any work with SMT devices up to this point, so this was first for me. I ordered a SOIC to DIP Adapter from Sparkfun to go with the DS2438A …

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Apr 18

Entered ThingSpeak contest

ThingSpeak is running the Internet of Things Contest (aka The Easiest Contest Ever) and I just submitted my entry with Seriot in combination with my Easy 1-Wire Sensor Network. We’ll see how I do… willnue

Apr 17

Easy Arduino 1-Wire Sensor Network

USB fit

A few months ago a friend of mine asked me if I could help him build a temperature monitoring solution for his home. After several failed attempts with various wireless temperature sensors/strategies I decided a wired solution was a better way to go. I built a solution based on an Arduino utilizing Maxim’s 1-Wire DS18B20 …

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