Arduino Starter Kit - Project 3 - Lover-O-Meter

Analogue Project with Temperature Sensor

A video tutorial is available on YouTube and also an Instructables tutorial.
Instructables has a tutorial on "How to Use the TMP36 Temp Sensor"

The Low Voltage Temperature Sensor specification describes from an engineering perspective the sensor  physical parameters. The particular variety supplied is the TMP 36 although on the device it says TMP36GZ. The TMP35, TMP36, and TMP37 are low voltage, precision centigrade temperature sensors. They provide a voltage output that is linearly proportional to the Celsius (Centigrade) temperature. The TMP35/TMP36/TMP37 do not require any external calibration to provide typical accuracies of ±1°C at +25°C and ±2°C over the –40°C to +125°C temperature range.

The TMP36 is specified from –40°C to +125°C, provides a 750 mV output at 25°C, and operates to +125°C from a single 2.7 V supply.

Building

With Autodesk Circuits I had some difficult after the circuit was tested/ I could not move one of the diodes and I lost a diode connection.

Here are the Fritzing breadboard and schema.

Results

• Manage to burn my finger badly, plugged the sensor in the wrong way round! But after that it worked well. Surprised it did not blow the sensor.
• Surprisingly simple to code these controllers and additionally how simple and functional the sensors are.