Arduino Powered Aquarium Controller Project

[kiwikid_1]

if you guys would like to PM me your emails I'll send it to you...its in a zip file

 

[kiwikid_1]

heres a couple of photos of the boards

The shield...you will see there is NO through pins on this board

The Mega on the bottom and the mega shield on top

The mega (bottom) the mega shield (middle) and the 3.2 TFT screen (Top)

as you can see there is no where to connect wires to the Arduino so all connections need to be soldered onto the mega shield.

On a side note I have ordered a 40 pin IDE male to female cable ( I can't find one here in NZ in a shop or online :wall: ) this will allow me to fix the screen away from the other boards

 

[LCornelius]

Thanks for the update, will be cool to place the screen away from the board!
Keep us in the loop!

 

[butcherman]

Anyones Arduino actully make it to their tanks?

 

[LCornelius]

Nope, reef angel is more affordable than DIY

 

[dono]

@butcherman... You are doing a 'Lazarus' on this thread... Lol... Reviving the dead...



Mine is working.need to clean my glass though...lol.

 

[dono]

Sorry bout the terrible pics.. iPad... And lousy upload quality compression...

 

[butcherman]

That is fantastic!

I'm in need of some pointers.

I have the mega2560 and the sainsmart 3.2 touch screen, water probes, rtc.

now looking at where to start

 

[dono]

I'd reckon also get the ileadstudio shield... You may need to solder directly onto it, like i did..But it's all good. I made a donation to Jamie, who is the creator of the Jarduino code... And he will supply you with the code for his app + all libraries etc..

I personally needed to mod the sketch a bit cos I primarily only have two colours on my LEDs blue and white... So instead of having different colours I broke the channels into zones.. So I got blue front, blue center , blue back, white front, white back..

I also got that 8 channel arduino relay for 220volt switching.

 

[butcherman]

Where can i get the sketch for the tft interface from? and the required libraries?

made a donation to Jamie, who is the creator of the Jarduino code...

is jamie still going?

 

[viper357]

Where can i get the sketch for the tft interface from? and the required libraries?

Is this what you're looking for? Arduino - TFTLibrary

 

[viper357]

adafruit/TFTLCD-Library · GitHub

2.8 TFT Touchscreen - 320x240 pixels in 16 bit color

 

[butcherman]

Is this what you're looking for? Arduino - TFTLibrary

thanks also looking for a sketch with a UI i can perhaps use

 

[viper357]

thanks also looking for a sketch with a UI i can perhaps use

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