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Just cranked out a ton of software work today, and I'm proud to say that I have ALL the sensors working, ALL of the display facets working, and a valid framework there for the climate control systems!!
This should be coming together in a week or two (it better, it's due the 7th of May )
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And yet another update!! I planned to have this system basically vary the humidity throughout the day according to some parameters, and that subroutine has just been verified to work!
The humidity settings are:
Mean (average) humidity--what you want the middle value to be.
Humidity Variation--the maximum distance up and down you want the humidity to travel.
Period (hours)--The time for the humidity to swing high, then low, and return to normal.
So say you have an animal that needs pretty high humidity-- 70% at minimum, 90% at maximum. You would set the Mean humidity at 80%, the variation at 10%, and say you want it to cycle high and low two times each day, so you'd set the Period at 12 hours. It would start out at 80%, be set at 90% exactly (ish) 3 hours later, 80% again at 6 hours, 70% at 9 hours, and back to 80%. This allows you to provide variation in humidity without having to "fudge" it by spraying and allowing to dry, and it is far more controllable and nuanced than the "Turn on for x minutes every y hours" style foggers.
In addition, if you want a constant humidity level, you can just leave the variation at "0" and it won't vary!
I can say, without reservation, this is the coolest class project I've ever done.
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I'm Sean
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As far as I know, the university doesn't own rights. I know of other people who have taken their work commercial without much trouble. In addition, I've just verified that I can use the microcontroller board that I'm using here commercially!
Mark, it's only worth what people will pay for it! Hahaha...and you'd be surprised about the labor. In terms of actual time spent working, we've got maybe 16 man-hours between two of us working on it.
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Pretty sweet. looks expensive though. I guess if I'll call you to invest in one when I get my next shipment of tuatara breeding pairs :-P
I have a question, what happens if it can't get the temps you want? Does it explode?
Example : I would like hot temps of 100, humidity at 100, and a cool side of 60? My tuataras like it really cold ? Lol
Well the logic is set up so humidity has slight preference over temperature. Basically, if humidity is ok, it will do everything it can for temperature...it won't explode, but if a person were to give it particularly extreme temperature, it'd simply always run the heat panel. Originally we were gonna put an air heater in, but it ended up needing a relatively massive amount of current, so we had to scrap that.
That said, even with the really lame set-up here, the humidity tracks remakably well. With a proper mister, I'm completely certain it could handle whatever humidity given with everything else as it is currently.
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...oh well. It's fixed now! 
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