Published May 24, 2017 © GPL3+

What To Wear LCD

Ever wondered what to wear due to unpredictable weather Wonder no longer!

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Things used in this project

Hardware components

LED (generic)

or tri-led

Adafruit RGB Backlight LCD - 16x2

doesn't have to be RGB

Particle Photon

Breadboard (generic)

Male/Female Jumper Wires

housing box

something big enough to house everything

Software apps and online services

Particle Pi

IFTTT Maker service

Story

If you're anything like me I have two major problems in the morning every day. The first being waking up and the other being finding out to wear, since the alarm clock was made years ago I took on the second task. Since we live in an area in which it can be 90 one day and 70 the next or vice versa I decided to build a system that would make the decision of what to wear easier. I started off with the idea of using an LCD screen in order to display the information. After more thinking I came up with the idea of using an LED and piezo speaker in the system as well. The LED would blink red if the weather the next day would be over 80, green if between 60 and 80, and blue if anywhere below 60. The piezo speaker would be used in order to alert the user that the nightly report was ready. We ran into some early problems with the coding but after help from SEAN FREESE we got it squared it away and were on our way to a functioning machine. At last we had a completely functioning, sleek, and reliable machine.

Most if any of the problems we had were with the wiring of the LCD and the code but other than that the project went along smoothly.

Code

What to Wear Code

#include "LiquidCrystal/LiquidCrystal.h"
LiquidCrystal lcd(D0, D1, D2, D3, D4, D5);
int ledHot = A0;
int ledCool = A1;
int ledCold = A2;
int sound = A5; 
int temp;

void setup() {

lcd.begin(16,2);
pinMode(sound, OUTPUT);
pinMode(ledHot,OUTPUT);
pinMode(ledCool, OUTPUT);
pinMode(ledCold, OUTPUT);
Particle.function("Clothing",clothingChoice);
digitalWrite(sound, LOW);
digitalWrite(ledCool, LOW);
digitalWrite(ledCold, LOW);
digitalWrite(ledHot, LOW);

}

void loop() {
   
}
int clothingChoice(String input){
    temp = atoi(input);
    if ((temp <= 80)&&(temp >= 61)){

        lcd.print("Cool wear Pants" );
        digitalWrite (ledCool, HIGH);
        digitalWrite (ledCold, LOW);
        digitalWrite (ledHot, LOW);
        digitalWrite(sound, HIGH);
        delay (2500);
        digitalWrite (ledCool, HIGH);
        digitalWrite (ledCold, LOW);
        digitalWrite (ledHot, LOW);
        digitalWrite(sound, HIGH);
        delay(2500);
        digitalWrite (ledCool, LOW);
        digitalWrite (ledCold, LOW);
        digitalWrite (ledHot, LOW);
        digitalWrite(sound, LOW);
        delay(10500);
        lcd.clear();
        return 1;
       
    }else if (temp <= 60){
    lcd.print ("Wear sweater cold");
    digitalWrite (ledCold, HIGH);
    digitalWrite (ledCool, LOW);
    digitalWrite (ledHot, LOW);
    digitalWrite(sound, HIGH);
    delay(2500);
    digitalWrite (sound, HIGH);
    digitalWrite (ledCold, HIGH);
    digitalWrite (ledCool, LOW);
    digitalWrite (ledHot, LOW);
    delay (2500);
     digitalWrite (sound, LOW);
    digitalWrite (ledCold, LOW);
    digitalWrite (ledCool, LOW);
    digitalWrite (ledHot, LOW);
    delay(10500);
    lcd.clear();
    return 2;
    
    }
else if (temp >= 81){
    lcd.print ("Wear shorts hot");
    digitalWrite (ledHot, HIGH);
    digitalWrite (ledCold, LOW);
    digitalWrite (ledCool, LOW);
    digitalWrite(sound, HIGH);
    delay (2500);
    digitalWrite (ledHot, HIGH);
    digitalWrite (ledCold, LOW);
    digitalWrite (ledCool, LOW);
    digitalWrite(sound, HIGH);
    delay (2500);
    digitalWrite (ledHot, LOW);
    digitalWrite (ledCold, LOW);
    digitalWrite (ledCool, LOW);
    digitalWrite(sound, LOW);
    delay(10500);
    lcd.clear();
    return 3;
    
} 
else {
    return -1;
}
}