This Arduino-Compatible Wine Bottle Serves as an On-Demand Environment Monitor for a Wine Fridge
Designed to nestle amongst its booze-bearing brethren, this smart bottle offers at-a-push measurement of temperature and humidity.
Pseudonymous maker "nbanbury" has put together an environment monitor build with a difference: It's housed in a wine bottle, so as to make it easy to check the conditions inside a wine fridge.
"My wine-bottle-shaped DHT monitor for my wine fridge is now fully prototyped," the maker writes of the project. "The stuff in this apart from the OLED was all from a beginner kit I got for Xmas."
Built around an Arduino microcontroller, the project uses a DHT11 environment sensor to keep tracks on the temperature and humidity within the fridge. The rest of the electronics, bar the sensor itself, which sits at the end of a trailing cable for ease of positioning, are located within a housing shaped like a wine bottle.
The top of the housing, which slides neatly home into the fridge alongside its booze-filled brethren, houses a small OLED display model. A push of a button activates the system and displays the current environmental conditions before automatically powering off again.
The maker already has a list of ways to take the project further, post the current proof-of-concept prototype: "Embedding the screen better," nbanbury writes, following a suggestion to rotate the display so it wouldn't sit so proud of the curved bottle. "Tidying up the inside of that bottle with a PCB and some soldering. And so on."
More details are available on the project's Reddit thread.