opto:farm / 27 July 2022
Monitoring the temperature of an opto:pod with an I2C sensor
We briefly discussed the importance of environmental monitoring during an optogenetics experiment when describing the multi-modal MS8607 temperature, pressure and humidity sensor. A simpler and slightly cheaper, yet powerful sensor is the popular Texas Instrument TMP117. As usual, we selected the Adafruit Industries breakout for no-fuss wiring and integration in your optogenetic project. TI and [...]
We briefly discussed the importance of environmental monitoring during an optogenetics experiment when describing the multi-modal MS8607 temperature, pressure and humidity sensor. A simpler and slightly cheaper, yet powerful sensor is the popular Texas Instrument TMP117. As usual, we selected the Adafruit Industries breakout for no-fuss wiring and integration in your optogenetic project.
TI and Adafruit made our life really easy with this precalibrated system that, as soon as is powered up starts to update its temperature register. Hence, we provide only the essential commands to read out the sensor with the opto:farm, using the default settings.
How easy is to measure temperature with the TMP117? Well… this easy:
The sensor seems to be very responsive as shown by this little movie using a XINABOX OD01 as output.
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Would you like to make more complex requests to the TMP117, you might want to either check Adafruit GuitHub repository or – if you feel adventurous – you can study the TI specsheet (2022).
Original source: optofarm.wordpress.com