A little bit of everything

This article is a part of NTC-thermistor incubator with Arduino (part 2)  For triple NTC-thermistor probes (part1)  access here . Hi again, today I continue my little experimentation with Arduino. The ultimate aim is to have a homemade incubator. This article will discuss a way to have a user input for some parameters in my incubator, like upper temperature limit ( upperTemp ), lower temperature limit ( lowerTemp ), heating and cooling time during the normal operation ( heatingTime and coolingTime , respectively). HARDWARE SETUP To enable user input, I selected four push buttons, representing select menu,  down, up, and mute buttons.  Learning from an Arduino page , it is fairly simple to understand the logic of multi buttons input for a single analog pin. I employed four different resistors to give different input values to an Arduino analog pin. For this,  I prepared electronic parts: 4x four-legged push buttons,  1x 10kΩ, 1x 4.7 kΩ, 1x 1kΩ, 1x 470Ω, and 1x 47Ω

Recently, when I stuck with limited lab equipments and decided to produce some for my agricultural post-harvest related research, my eyes fixed with Arduino ! This is enough to wake up my old time hobby with electronics (what I really mean was soldering, XD). I never touch them for the past 15 years. I am a total noob in this matter. Arduino recreates a new passion, just like when I learned GNU/Linux some 10 years ago.  Last year, I purchased an Arduino UNO R3 for the purpose of learning and found this is incredibly simple to deliver solutions in my field. I do not need (and do not want too) to learn assembler or AVR  languages in depth, just to produce thermocouple logger for cacao fermentation or to build a small scale DC powered incubator for example. Arduino UNO (pic. from www.arduino.cc) HARDWARE SETUP Enough talking, now I proceed to the core of the article, a tutorial for NTC-thermistor incubator. In this occasion, a “brain” for incubator using negative temperatu