Computer Temperature Monitor

For my project, I decided to measure the temperature of my computer because when I play video games or have a lot of tasks running, it will get hot. To measure the temperature, I used a thermistor and followed the instructions from the studio on how to wire it to the Arduino. I expected the temperature to be in the range of 85 F to 95 F when I set it up, but after running the program I realized that the average temperature was 108 F. I believe that this number was because having to leave the code running meant that my computer was using a lot of its power in running the code. It was also likely affected by my sensor being taped over an air vent, so it was harder for the computer to cool itself. My data for the first chunk of time was inaccurately computed because one of the wires came off the circuit, so the temperature looks on the graph like it spiked, but that was not the actual temperature of the computer. You can see on my graph that I have in my video the places that I ran a video game as well as the spots where I closed all of my tabs and tasks that were running on the computer and just let it sit without use. Overall, this was a successful project that had a few errors at the beginning, but it worked and I learned a lot while creating it.

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Artifacts

Name Description
10 Minute Averages This is a spreadsheet of my 10 minute averages and the graph I created using that data   Link
Arduino Code File This is my code for the temperature sensor   Download
Video Explination and Walk Through A video of my talking about my code   Link