@abraxas 25 March 2022

Nerdlinging was a great success! Got it all wired up, and frankencoded the project I needed. Not totally sold on the temp sensor - it seems to only output whole degrees. I'll have to dig into the library later to figure out if there's a way to get more sensitive results. Essentially, it grabs the temperature and humidity of the room, then it lights up an LED each time it refreshes - the colour of the LED is determined by which range the temp falls into. It also outputs that data to the LCD panel. Wiring that component up was interesting to say the least. The documentation I had didn't work at all. And most of the ones I found online needed a potentiometer. I was able to rig something up in TinkerCAD and got it working there... but I needed to find a way to get it going without the pot... All it took was ground wire to the pin instead. I have a feeling that a lot of the tutorials that these schematics were forked from used the LCD to display the value of the potentiometer resistance... but they just had the screen displaying "Hello World" lol. So dumb that none of them thought to just ground the pin instead 🤷🏻‍♂️ I also swapped out the suggested 10K resistor for a 1K resistor, as the screen was ridiculously dim, otherwise.