Making of the Temperature Sensor
The next step to making our temperature sensor would be defining the components that make the sensor what it is. With a lecture from one of the people at the lab I learned that one of the components which was a thermistor is a combination of the two words thermal and resistor. Resistor which is something that resists energy flow and thermal which means temperature, so basically a thermistor is something that resists energy flow through the changing of temperatures. We also learned about DC (Direct Current) and AC (Alternate Current. DC is easier to work with but less efficient to transmit and is used more often then AC, it is found in common electronics like stereos, computers and radios. AC is used when you need to transmit electricity over long distances like power wires. The three major terms that we had learned about today were resistor, capacitor, and inductor. A capacitor was explained as something that stores energy and was explained in a drawing as a bucket that energy flows into. A resistor basically resists energy flow sort of like making gallons of water come out of a tiny water hose rather than a larger one. An inductor is like a coil of wire that stores energy in a a magnetic field and resists the change in voltage. Other terms that we learned were a transistor which amplifies a signal and a diode which is like a one way gate for electricity. The purpose of learning these terms is so we can have further knowledge about the project we are making which is a temperature sensor which will eventually be a temperature sensor shower as a final product . We also will receive additional help on the temperature sensor project by Dhananjay Gadre who is an assistant professor at the Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology in India. He has already made a temperature sensor so he will be a major help in making this project. We have prepared questions to ask him and mine are How do you calibrate the temperature and How would you convert it into a temperature sensing shower. This is the work that we have done so far.
