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How I Spent My Snow Day

Jan 16, 2012, 11:37 AM | Updated: Oct 14, 2024, 1:13 pm

When you’re off work and iced in, might as well do something productive. So here’s my snow-day project — the ATmega168 series microcontroller temperature sensor…

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It’s a “Nerdkit.”

http://www.nerdkits.com/

All you have to do to measure your temperature is jam this assembly under your tongue.

Yeah, ridicule me all you want. Once I master the remote control add-on and brush up on my C++ I’ll have temperature-sensing drones flying all over the city.

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