Low cost Arduino DAQ - Temperature Measurment and PWM Control of a PC Fan and Heater.

README.md

This flow makes use of Johnny-five to interface with an Arduino Uno, in order to measure temperatures through a PC heatsink. This can be performed at different power inputs to the heater and different fan speeds.This flow can however be edited to be used for other purposes. Both the fan and heater were controlled using MOSFET transistors.

The temperatures are graphed and can be viewed in a dashboard interface. The heater and fan input PWM signal can be adjusted from this interface as well. The temperature readings are also saved to a text file.

This flow was adapted from a flow created by Bradley Bock: https://flows.nodered.org/flow/4bceef5251eaa1f17a8f1fbeb5b6c34d

flow.json

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