Boilin' Fast Cooking Timer (5) ECE342-W21

This Boilin' Fast Cooking Timer is designed to give the user a more relaxed cooking experience. It can be frustrating to be chopping ingredients, or doing something in another room while having to come back and check if your water is boiling or food is cooked repeatedly. This box has two modes: one alerts the user after any chosen time from 1 to 99 minutes has passed, and the other can be used to alert the user to their water boiling. The timer is controlled by an Arduino Nano driving a seven segment display and small Kobitone speaker. The boiling detector uses a variable thermistor voltage divider probe to keep track of the current water temperature and alerts the user using the speaker when the water reaches 98.5 degrees Celsius (typical rolling boil point). This project involved a lot of personal growth learning 3d printing, Arduino coding, and general project management. If the project were to be improved in the future I would optimize the code to better use functions and interrupts for more efficiency. I also designed a possible PCB which has been included in the design files but was not used in the project. If I were to recreate the project I would try to include this to improve organization.

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Artifacts

Name Description
Developer Guide This guide contains information on how the system can be used as well as artifacts such as the code, electrical schematics, and mechanical drawings of the system.   Download
Project Summary This executive summary outlines the reason for this project as well as some general timeline and phase discussion of how the project was accomplished.   Download
Project Video This video overviews some of the related documents and schematics and ends with a live demo of the Boilin' Fast Cooking Timer.   Link