Speaking digital thermometer demo

[Harty123]

Hi,

I'm finished my work on a digital thermometer based on the Uzebox platform with an digital I2C temperature sensor LM75. Here is a first preview of my work:



You will find detailed information about this thermometer in the wiki.

It is possible to connect a LM75 temperature sensor to the Uzebox hardware (SDA = PD5, SCL = PD3, address = 0). In this case the demo will measure and show the temperature of this sensor in realtime. Without a sensor the program runs in so called DEMO MODE with simulated temperature values.

uzethermV11.zip

Uzetherm V1.1
(UZE + HEX + VOICE FILES)

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Uzetherm Sensor V01-00.zip

Schematic of sensor connection

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-Harty

[uze6666]

Cool, that's a nifty idea Harty! I reckon there should be more hardware things made with the Uzebox. I'll try it for sure and get one of the sensor on mu next digikey order.

-Uze

[HardlyUnique]

Cool, that's a nifty idea Harty! I reckon there should be more hardware things made with the Uzebox. I'll try it for sure and get one of the sensor on mu next digikey order.

I second all of that.

The display is very cool; that thermometer looks gorgeous on my avcore and the digital display looks really cool in uzem! Can't wait to test it with the LM75.

Nice job!

[Harty123]

Hi,

@Uze and Hardlyunique

many Thanks... For the dotmatrix style I find inspiration by the multi function display in my VW Passat... The big advantage of this style is that I need only 2 tiles for it.

I've realized, that in the Uzebox schematic PD2 is in use for the power switch (? - no idea how this works) but PD5 is unused and also available on the expansion slot. So in the further development I will change the SDA signal to PD5.

-Harty

[mapes]

Hi Harty,

I'm interested in your inclusion of the UzeAmp into a different program. Does it also support sound effects?

If you can mix sound effects and the playing of a wave file via UzeAmp, I would be have a very big hurdle of my next game project cleared out.

I would really like to do a Intelevision Space Spartans remake, but the voice/sound effects have to work before I really grind on it.

-Mapes

[Harty123]

Hi,

I've changed the code to PD5 for SDA see above. About the LM75: this chip is often used in PC mainboards as temperature sensor. If you have an old mainboard check it - perhaps you can recycle the sensor.

I'm interested in your inclusion of the UzeAmp into a different program. Does it also support sound effects?

If you can mix sound effects and the playing of a wave file via UzeAmp, I would be have a very big hurdle of my next game project cleared out.

I would really like to do a Intelevision Space Spartans remake, but the voice/sound effects have to work before I really grind on it.

Space Spartans - great idea for an Uzebox game!

Hm at the moment I do some experiments with the converting of sound files in the right format - with good results. Also I tried to understand the source code of Uzeamp. It looks like that it is possible to mix sound effects with the playing of a wave file. But I don't need this feature for my application. I will inform you about the results of my experiments in the next days...


-Harty

[Harty123]

Hi,

the first version of the speaking thermometer is finished now. See above.

-Harty

[uze6666]

Voice!! It works flawlessly as usual...and in 2 language as a bonus. Though all those little wav files should ideally be bundled into one or two. I was refactoring the Uzamp code this weekend and a new feature could be the ability to play the wav file from an arbitray point and for a certain lenght.

Nice work Harty!

[Harty123]

Voice!! It works flawlessly as usual...and in 2 language as a bonus. Though all those little wav files should ideally be bundled into one or two. I was refactoring the Uzamp code this weekend and a new feature could be the ability to play the wav file from an arbitray point and for a certain lenght.

Nice work Harty!

Yes thats a good idea for future versions of Uzetherm to put all wav files of a language in one file .... I can save a lot of RAM with this feature.

-Harty

P.S. If you want to create a news item, pls wait until I've added the source code in the wiki!

[paul]

That's really inventive, Harty! I like how you seem to consider the Uzebox more of an experimental prototype board rather than a game console