After only reading about and watching videos of all your great and inspiring projects I also want to share one…
So, please have a look into my bathroom.
Hardware
Adafruit Metro Mini 328
LED Strip APA102
IR Thermosensor MLX90614ESF-ACF
Software
Arduino IDE
FastLED Animation Library
Adafruit MLX90614 Library
Interesting project. Looks very nice. Where is the thermosensor located/how did you mount it? Any unexpected challenges you ran into?
The thermosensor is located in a drilled 10mm hole in the wooden board right below the mixer tap. In the video it is intentionally not shown, not to destroy all the magic…
I choose a thermosensor with the narrowest beam I could get, this one has a FOV of only 10°. That allows it to cover the whole stream of water. I think this a prerequisite for accurate and non fluctuating measurements. I expect it would be difficult to measure the temperature of the common smaller round streams from this distance.
As always there is room for improvment. On the stills at the beginning of the video you can see that the corners of the sandblasted acrylic glass are a little bit darker then the rest. I will try to make the leds sitting directly at the corners a little bit brighter.
And now that it is in use, new features come to my mind. If you are taking a bath some other light effects like e.g. a fire simulation may look nice as an ambient lighting.
Wow this is really cool- also WHERE DID YOU GET THIS AMAZING FAUCET!!!